Article Fragile Beauty While returning back from her funeral, I felt very sad and grief stricken. She was not only my school teacher but also an excellent human being that I knew in decades. I wondered if the death is ultimate reality in this universe then why people do so much clamoring about life all the time. I […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh December 15, 2020September 25, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article Atonement Shalini and Ritu had accompanied me to the railway station. Whenever I go on long official tour, they have been coming for years without exception to see me off. An old fashion guy, I prefer the train journey vice airways for obvious reasons of experiencing natural, ethnic and cultural variety of this magnificent land. I […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh December 15, 2020September 25, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article An Unfinished Story I know him as my best friend since childhood. We were born and brought up in the same town. Our parents were family friends, our houses had a common boundary wall and, in short, we were like a family. As toddlers we had grown up and played together, went in the same kindergarten and had […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh December 15, 2020September 25, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Castaway Years agoHis ship wrecked,CastawayIn his solitudeIn a constant struggleWith the lonelinessHe is still engagedWith the wreckage… Mending itRepairing itFabricating itTo a credibleNavigable deviceWith a hope to reachThe mainlandSomeday…! NeverthelessTo be,Or not to be,Remains the dilemma…If onlyHis loved oneStill longs forand accepts…The unbridgeable gapOf time, space and age! (‘To be, or not to be’ is one […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh December 15, 2020October 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Bureaucracy Long years in bureaucracy…Now I often keep wonderingWhy do organizations engageProfessional singers and artistsTo entertain captive audiencesOn many auspicious occasionsSuch as commemorative daysAnd a National or Raising day..? When the senior bureaucratsThanks to inflated ego and arroganceWith all time-brewing tensionsAre capable of providing freeAnd a far better entertainmentWith a high comical contentThrough their antics, angularitiesAnd […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh December 15, 2020October 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Breeze Write on the breezeName of the breezeAs greetings from this unknown stranger.In whose name, and for whom is itO birdie, your melodious song? When sunlight fell on the branchTo have its friendly touchThe evening jumped downSmiled, and invitingly gesturedIt keeps playing with the dawn here.On the breeze write… The playful flowing waterForgetting its normal courseLies, as if […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh December 15, 2020October 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Braveheart As the enemy carriesMisadventure to violateThe Indian air spaceVital military installationsAnd identity of the proud nation… The BraveheartShowing exemplary courageResolve and missionary zealChases and engages enemy in airEquipped with a far superiorMachine, technology and firepower. With a firm determinationAnd an absolute precisionHe shoots down enemy planeBefore his own ill-fated oneCrashes down in the enemy land. […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh December 15, 2020October 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Bonded Labour Bonded labour – domestic,agricultural and industrial,a curse on the human rights,individual liberty and dignity. A human soul in a dire needcompromises and borrows,in return, one has to pledgehis or her own body and soul. One works for entire lifein lieu of liabilities accruedand yet the principal remainsfor his or her kin to be paid. Life […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh December 15, 2020October 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blog They Go by Victim’s Religion There cannot be more heinous, despicable and shameful crime than the molestation and rape of minor children and woman. In yet another spine-chilling bizarre incident, an eight-year-old minor girl (some reports say 7 years) was abducted and gang- raped in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district on 26 June 2018. The minor girl was reportedly waiting for […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh December 15, 2020September 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blog Treating Elderly People With the fast changing life style seeking more privacy, comforts and growing consumerism, the concept of the extended or combined families is fast declining with focus on nuclear families. The worst hit and neglected people on account of this change are old people in the category of grandparents and likes. The trend is universal but […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh December 15, 2020September 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Blue Dragon The blue sea slug floats on the marine wavesUpside down on the ocean’s face at easeThe creature has sapphire belly and silver backTo Camouflage away from predators that attack. Be not misled by its grace or fairy form deceiveFor special and lethal is the web it can weaveIt seeks the Portuguese man-o’-war upon the tideA […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 17, 2026June 17, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Eternal Canopy Heart-shaped leaves catch the passing breezeA gentle whisper stirs the emperor of treesEach pointed tip channels the raindrop’s traceWhile quiet shadows fill the peaceful space. Underneath its vast and fine-textured canopyA quiet, soothing shelter spreads out completelyIt offers a vibrant sanctuary, green and wideWhere both birds and weary travellers can abide. For generations past, its […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 16, 2026June 16, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Giant Manta Ray Where sunlit waters yield to deep, abyssal coldGiant Manta Ray wanders through blue and goldThe pelagic expanses to the dynamic coastal reefAre their beat in ocean, beyond our world’s belief. A frame of cartilage gives flexibility to their gracePectoral wings can reach seven meters in the spaceNo stinging barb upon the tail, no armour for […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 16, 2026June 16, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Peregrine Falcon Across the mountains, cliffs, and coastsFrom Arctic tundra winds to hot desertsThe Peregrine raptor rides the open skyA restless and mighty lord who passes by. Blue-grey mantle with a barred white breastLong wings and dark hood upon a noble crestLarge and keen eyes fashioned to beholdEven a feather’s flick in sunlight gold. The rushing wind […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 15, 2026June 15, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Tiger Beetle This Australian salt-lake tiger beetleCicindela hudsoni in sun-bleached plainsAn insect of pale, tan or dull-metallic hueEndemic in arid salt lakes of Australian southIs the fastest bug with speed record crownWhile many other beetles’ species are slowerWearing iridescent emerald or rainbow armour. The speedster is flightless with vestigial wingsIt relies entirely on sheer sprinting speedRather than […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 14, 2026June 14, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Blue Dragon The blue sea slug floats on the marine wavesUpside down on the ocean’s face at easeThe creature has sapphire belly and silver backTo Camouflage away from predators that attack. Be not misled by its grace or fairy form deceiveFor special and lethal is the web it can weaveIt seeks the Portuguese man-o’-war upon the tideA […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 17, 2026June 17, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Eternal Canopy Heart-shaped leaves catch the passing breezeA gentle whisper stirs the emperor of treesEach pointed tip channels the raindrop’s traceWhile quiet shadows fill the peaceful space. Underneath its vast and fine-textured canopyA quiet, soothing shelter spreads out completelyIt offers a vibrant sanctuary, green and wideWhere both birds and weary travellers can abide. For generations past, its […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 16, 2026June 16, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Giant Manta Ray Where sunlit waters yield to deep, abyssal coldGiant Manta Ray wanders through blue and goldThe pelagic expanses to the dynamic coastal reefAre their beat in ocean, beyond our world’s belief. A frame of cartilage gives flexibility to their gracePectoral wings can reach seven meters in the spaceNo stinging barb upon the tail, no armour for […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 16, 2026June 16, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Hindu, Hinduism and Hindustan: Part LXXV Pilgrimage-I Nearly all communities and religions in the world attach significance to places which have some connection with any worldly or supernatural act(s) or event(s) of the divine (God) or His messenger(s); the birth, enlightenment or death of founder and saints; sites of the spiritual calling or awakening; supposedly a dwelling or living place of […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh October 31, 2022November 17, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Gulmohar Again In a life dull and forlornOwing to devastation and fearCaused by the alien coronavirusAs I venture out after weeksFrom my humble yet safe homeIn this rather isolated yet sheltered lane… Oh! It’s the month of May againThe time for Gulmohar to go greenAnd blooming full swing againIn the lane flanked by umpteenGulmohars forming a canopy […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh May 11, 2021November 8, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Whose God is This Anyway? God (Brahman) is the highest... Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 24, 2021March 11, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ज्यों-ज्यों बूड़ो श्याम रंग बसन्त विहार कालोनी की परंपरानुसार... Written by Gita Singh February 22, 2021September 21, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked