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Month: December 2020

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Diana Nyad

She achieved an incredible featAt the fairly advanced age of sixty-fourBy crossing ‘The Straits of Florida’From Havana to Florida, Key West. Skeptics by sheer temperamentWould always find reasonsTo question or raise doubtsOn such a milestone achievement. Why can’t people simply takeThis feat at its face valueTo derive inspiration for all –That we should never ever give upAnd […]
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Diamonds Forever

That fun and laughterOn those days and nightsSome moments ofFolly and frenzyHope and despairAnd among all thisBudding and bloomingAffection and loveBetween teenage hearts… For a fortnightAs if it had no endsLife was standstillTime had stopped. It has been a lifespanDecades have passed;Would he ever forgetWould he ever change? No, never everDuring this lifetimeShe is no […]
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Demonetization

Perhaps, it’s for the first timeIn the history of this nationThat the common man is sufferingYet the majority enduring the painAnd not resorting to protests or interventionsThrough strikes, dharnas or processions. Ironically, on the other handThe privileged creamy lot of the nationPoliticians – self-styled messiahs of the landAre crying foul and opposing itEvery tooth and […]
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Shape-Shifting Titan

A translucent vagabond of the stagnant pondMapping the shadows of the depths beyondBody has no rigid contour, chassis or shellWith a plasmic universe inside a single cell. A shape-shifting titan of gel and liquid streamAn ever-shifting silhouette, a living-flowing dreamIt extends pseudopodia, pushing outward wideWhere the quiet, drifted water-currents glide. Engulfing unwary prey in a […]
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Hindu, Hinduism and Hindustan: Part LXXXVII

Misconception and Misunderstandings – III (B)  Sociology and Culture For the last few centuries, Sanatana Dharma has frequently been analysed and evaluated, particularly by the Western sources, through their socio-religious lenses, thereby reducing an open, vibrant and liberal millennia-old cultural matrix into some rigid stereotypes. Critics and outside scholars/observers often confuse late-historical distortions, local customs, […]
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Shape-Shifting Titan

A translucent vagabond of the stagnant pondMapping the shadows of the depths beyondBody has no rigid contour, chassis or shellWith a plasmic universe inside a single cell. A shape-shifting titan of gel and liquid streamAn ever-shifting silhouette, a living-flowing dreamIt extends pseudopodia, pushing outward wideWhere the quiet, drifted water-currents glide. Engulfing unwary prey in a […]
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