Poem Key to Happiness He, a longtime friend and confidanteOnly recently candidly confided in meThat he with no other liabilities now leftYet ample cash & resources at disposalOnly desire or object he nurtures in lifeIs to seek pleasure and happiness in life. I parried him: If only money and the mobilized resourcesAnd thus achieved such worldly pleasuresWere indeed a […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 27, 2024February 28, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Destined When I look back in retrospectThe only constant thought arisesYou were my first loss of life, thatTurned out to be painful last too! The only viable rationale I surmiseThat in all probability, may be trueFollowing your luckless departureI never aspired anything more in life. So, for this reason whatever cameI accepted it as destined gracefullyRather […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 25, 2024February 25, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article Ram Mandir Consecration: A Cultural Heritage Restored Recently, the ancient city of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, Bharat was once again in news globally for the Pran Pratishtha of the most popular deity (Sri Ram) in the Garbhagrih (Sanctum Sanctorum) and opening of the newly constructed magnificent Ram Mandir (Temple) for the darshan by the devotees. According to the traditional cultural and religious […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 24, 2024February 24, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem रात से रोमांस अपने से जो लोग है वो तो करते नहीं कभी कोई बात मुलाकात।दिन में कोई देख न ले, रात आती है लोगों को सुलाने के बाद।। धीरे धीरे चुपके चुपके आती है पास, तन्हा अकेले में रात।चांद रखता है पहरा उसके, आती है उसके ढलने उपरान्त।। राज दुलारी है पर दासियों को भी, लाती न […] Written by Surata Ram February 22, 2024February 22, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem The Republic Chorale Recalling on auspicious Republic Day, the 26th January 2024,How the shackles of foreign rule, our countless heroes tore.The brunt of unfathomable torture and humiliation they bore!We bow in reverence to the martyrs and earnestly we adore. But for their sacrifices, we wouldn’t have this gaiety and galoreEnjoying our freedom with a ceiling over us and […] Written by Surata Ram February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article Winter Dahlia From Author’s Garden Friends and acquaintances are also aware about this author’s love and fascination for flowers, and more particularly the Dahlia flowers. While in the government service for the long years, he had ample opportunity and ideal conditions to grow a variety of Dahlia flowering plants along with other flowers year after year in his very often […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 9, 2024March 24, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem At Home Editor’s Choice Everything that is scaledAs highest or lowestThat comes, construedAnd accepted as such in lifeBecomes nothing in the end. Conclusion!Yes, a solace at-home.Contours ascendedOr descended in the journeyWere inevitably in processOf extracting the best… They are to becomethe marks you left!Sounds spirituality!Yes – no, waste!Arrive “within” to reach rest. 21,318 total views, 2 views today Written by Santosh K Nema February 8, 2024February 8, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Creation Primordial mountains standAncient streams carve the stoneLife blooms from the silent dust. 29 total views, 5 views today Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Weeping Dragon Across Socotra’s limestone crests they riseGrowing some thirty feet high towards skiesEndemic only to the archipelago’s rocky spaceSlow seedlings rise to claim their ancient place. Upon the scorched and barren heightThe dragon’s canopy crown shade takes flightIt looks like inverted umbrella, wide and grandConserving critical moisture for the desert land. When the heavy mist slides […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Steadfast Harbour Editor’s Choice The river sang song, sacred and sublimeBut ambivalent banks withdrew in uneaseA few passing clouds, one shadowed turnMade sacrosanct waters open to question. The pristine lotus closed before the dawnConvinced the sun had lost its orientationSteady banyan grieved to see vine unwindRumours cast heavy shadows on her mind. So too the human heart […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 22, 2026June 22, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
मेरा ईश्वर बनाम आपका ईश्वर अनादि काल से दुनिया भर के विद्वानों, दार्शनिकों और धार्मिक गुरुओं ने विभिन्न संस्कृतियों और धर्मों में अलग-अलग नामों और रूपों में ईश्वर की प्रकृति और गुणों की व्याख्या और वर्णन किया है। वास्तव में, आधुनिक युग में दो अब्राहमिक (Abrahamic) धर्मों के विद्वानों और अनुयायियों ने तो आक्रामक रूप से अक्सर यह दावा, और […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 21, 2026June 21, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Atta Nation Akin to tiny green umbrellas walking in a lineAttas cut out perfect leaf-discs, working overtimeEach one carries a heavy load, marching in a rowGuided by a scent trail to their colony below. They carry the harvest home, a burden of leavesInto the dark where the Great Fungus weavesThis not for ingestion, but as substrate and […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 20, 2026June 20, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Creation Primordial mountains standAncient streams carve the stoneLife blooms from the silent dust. 29 total views, 5 views today Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Weeping Dragon Across Socotra’s limestone crests they riseGrowing some thirty feet high towards skiesEndemic only to the archipelago’s rocky spaceSlow seedlings rise to claim their ancient place. Upon the scorched and barren heightThe dragon’s canopy crown shade takes flightIt looks like inverted umbrella, wide and grandConserving critical moisture for the desert land. When the heavy mist slides […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Steadfast Harbour Editor’s Choice The river sang song, sacred and sublimeBut ambivalent banks withdrew in uneaseA few passing clouds, one shadowed turnMade sacrosanct waters open to question. The pristine lotus closed before the dawnConvinced the sun had lost its orientationSteady banyan grieved to see vine unwindRumours cast heavy shadows on her mind. So too the human heart […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 22, 2026June 22, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rajnigandha Touch Now I get tired too soonSo I’m afraid of going farBut all this does not meanI’ve abandoned walks forever… And yes, I often feel lonelyEven amongst my own peopleBut all this does not meanI have stopped caring for all… I often remember our friendshipI still care for our relationshipBut how much I do,I have stopped […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh November 16, 2020October 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Greed For Power Among all temptations in life of a man, perhaps the greed for power is the strongest one. The obvious reasons appear to be that when one is empowered, all other luxuries and antiquities of life automatically fall in line. Hence it is not surprising that people craving for the power adopt and exploit all overt […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh November 7, 2020September 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A Fairy Tale Like a fairy descended from the paradiseShe was beautiful no less than Snow WhiteLike an angel she was generous and kindThe flowers bloomed whenever she smiled. She was standing my way with open armsAnd I knew well this was real not a dreamYet kept struggling to overcome my inertiaAnd in the process I rendered her […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh October 21, 2020February 10, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked