Everyone talks about courage during failure, About how you shouldn’t give up or lose hope, Too little has been said about handling success, When everything goes right, how do you cope? When you think people need you more than you them, When concern and envy begin to look the same, How do you tell…
“And for my final pick, I choose the humans of Earth.” “Again? After their performance last time? You’re more stubborn than I thought.” I look over to my brother. He has a grin on his face. He and I have played this game so many times in the past. When you have an infinity of…
"Hello Darkness my old friend.. I'm come to talk with you again" My voice carries far across the field behind my little hut. Coming up here to get away from the city is one of my favorite things in life. The crisp breeze is soothing against my skin as I settle into my favorite wooden…
I am that breed That is quite difficult to find. In a country ravaged by sentiments I stand tall, unaffected, undefiled. I am persona non grata Cause I am the one who Doesn’t impose, take offense, Scream, shout or aim for revenge. I don’t try to impose My thoughts on you. I am…
Bang. Bang Bang. Her fist pounding against the unyielding metal is all Sarah hears. Bang. Bang. Bang. Sarah crawls into the far corner. Draws her knees up to her chest and wraps her arms around them. She's rocking slightly. Twitching. Her mascara's running. Two thin trails of black, down her cheeks. Salty. She runs a…
“There's nothing wrong with keeping quiet, after all, hadn't women traditionally been expected to be demure and restrained?” I've been meaning to write this review for several months now. I got derailed initially by the gruesome discovery of being allergic to Seltzer water, a discovery that was accompanied by pain and exhaustion for many a…
“I believe that if we dispense with mythologies that have distracted us from the reality we find ourselves in, we can make capitalism work for most of us rather than for only a relative handful.” tl;dr Repeating what I wrote in my Goodreads review. If you’re reading one non-fiction book this year, it should be […]
“Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They…
"Prisonface is terrified of life; he is a chameleon, a mirror, existing only through his reflection in the eyes of others." H is for Hawk is not, by any stretch of the imagination, an obscure book. If you wind the clock back a year and peruse through any best books list from 2015, you'd find…
A couple of months back, there was an appalling controversy over television presenter Mayanti Langar, wife of cricketer Suart Binny, being trolled on twitter and other social media platforms for the cricketing performance of her husband. The extent to which people would go to abuse someone who is not even the direct subject of their…
