While going through the school grade scales, we knew of only two words … PASS and FAIL. For a higher class promotion, one had to pass a test to get in. The one who Failed continued in the same class. Did we ever use the words Successful and Unsuccessful? We never say that X …
VOCABULARY OF LOVE… IS IT A LANGUAGE OR GESTURE
Ever since the advent of Man on this planet, the most talked about and universally felt emotion or expression has been LOVE. Hatred goes side by side as it equally overrides the head. But Love takes precedence and rules the world. Sure enough, there has to be a language, rather a common dialect for …
THE PHYLOSOPHY OF ABUSES (गाली गलौच).. Is it Physiological OR grossly Pathological… AN ANALYSES.
‘ABUSE’ means overindulgence in something like an addiction that causes a bad effect on the body. OR, Maltreating and using foul language or words out of anger or cruelty But, I want to discuss the word Abuse, referred to as a ‘Gaali’ in Hindi ( a foul word). I studied at an English medium …
LIVING IN IMAGINATIONS , is life 50 percent lived..SO why not DREAM and LIVE.
“Dreams are not what you see while sleeping, dreams are that which don’t let you sleep”. A.P.J Abdul Kalam. The great man coined these words with a positive attitude, logic and accuracy. Keep working towards your dreams. No wonder all the dreams don’t come true but that should not stop the fire from falling …
Beyond the boundaries … Love can’t be caged. Can we limit the feelings by the barbs of the fencing?
Referring to the song … ”Husna…by the famous poet and singer Piyush Misra … During the 1947 Partition, two innocent hearts, in love, were lost in the cruel hands of destiny. They were alienated forever. No one heard the sobs or saw the tears when the lovers cried for each other. The ruthless political …
The Enigma of OBSCENITY and PORN…अश्लील या कामोद्दीपक ..
I remember an old black and white movie, ‘Dhool ka Phool’, on the subject of premarital sex and raising an illegitimate child. My mother stopped me from watching this movie because it was obscene for a school kid like me. In those times, the Hero and Heroine would hide their face behind a tree …
The enigma of character & characterless
The authenticity of the word characterless or चरित्रहीन… Who decides? Google says “the mental and moral qualities distinctive of an individual” refers to CHARACTER. AND, anyone who has no mental abilities or is morally deranged, he or she is CHARACTER LESS! In today’s world, I find these two words very superfluous and inappropriate. I …
The venom of Religion & the Acid of Taboos
I was with some friends for dinner. We settled for a decent restaurant in the vicinity. As we were placing the order I saw one of waiters rush out of the dining area. This somehow intrigued me as the glimpse made me uncomfortable. I followed the waiter to the porch outside. In the better illumination …
Suicide… Death of not one person, but the whole family.
Suicide… The act of intentionally taking one’s own life. Suicide is surely a crime. A crime which if committed, the culprit cannot be punished. Then how can it be a crime? Who gets punished eventually? The criminal is gone, vanished in thin air, leaving behind a rotten body on the dirty table for autopsy. A …