It was August 15, I was going to Pahalgam after 23 years. Besides the overriding urge to see a beloved place, I was also keen to see the changes in…
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I am at the Dal Lake shore, Wanting to put a garland round your neck, I have come to see you, Mother, Friends beseeched me not to visit you, As…
It seems some places are destined to remain sorrowful, in spite of the best efforts of some of their people to make them otherwise. Kashmir is one of them. …
It has been five years when I buried Elizabeth in the Rosemary Cemetery, A garden of sculpted grace, a museum of undying memories, Even with the torture of the blunt…
At the age of 80 Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was offered a homeless monk’s charity meal, which consisted of a preparation of pig meat*, by a smith called…
I have just started the walk on Eternity Bridge – my favorite haunt, Coarseness of world softens in the folds of the surrounding celestial scenery, Something overtakes my loneliness and…
A long day’s work in world is ending – I am only a mile away from home now, My foot on the accelerator has tightened and my eyes have become…
Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science over thousands of years. Man’s deep need to understand time, its origin and nature, stems from the fact…
We have gone through the harsh sieve of time waiting for spring to come, It has crossed its arrival time but in defiance of sanity our hopes persist, But hope…
Slowly people trickled to a late outdoor fall party, Bone-dry twigs were loaded one by one to a heap rotund and tall, Which was drenched generously with a flammable liquid…