The propelling silence is omnipresent throughout, so much so that it questions one’s conscience with its tormenting penchant for answers. Aligarh pauses like how a poem does at powerful junctures and …
The Old man’s park
“Going inside to play or pray”, he asks the little kid, who seems to rush inside the park rather cunningly, so that he doesn’t need to pay the Rs 2 entry fee. The old man is attentive enough to catch …
He was a joy to watch
Test cricket has an alarming tendency to saunter along as if in need of some helping hands during the batting friendly post lunch sessions, especially on a hot sunny day. On one such afternoon, 11 yea…
A laborious artist leaves his mark – Kumar Sangakkara
As the sun set at the P Sara Oval on the 4th day of the 2nd test against India, it had seen Kumar Sangakkara bat for Sri Lanka one last time. For years now, as it bid adieu to a day’s play, it didn’t …
Celebrating Cricket’s savior – Dale Steyn
Shaun Pollock was already a legend, but he was ageing. In 2007, there were fears that he would be dropped from the Pakistan test series at the expense of either Dale Steyn or Andrew Nel. Pollock was a…
‘A Godzilla of natural force’
A fictional piece on yana’s ‘Bhairaveshwara shikhara’ As I stood over the slippery slope with my feet trying hard to grip the wet land beneath, a lightning struck. So razor sharp it …
Chanderpaul’s fairy tale farewell that isn’t.
Bidding goodbye can be tough, even more if it is to what one loves the most. One hates to not love what one does like to do the most, yet sometimes one needs to introspect that love. Introspection mos…
My punishment is not traceable!
They curbed my strength as soon as I was born, they made it seem so obvious that, to be strong, I thought was wrong. It was the rule of the land to suppress me. So seamless it was, that I thought to b…
Film review: With Vastu Prakara is Yograj Bhat fading away?
[yasr_overall_rating size=”large”] A wand made of carelessness has been the protagonist’s weapon in magnetizing his viewers in all of Yograj Bhat’s movies and Vastu Prakara is no different…
Writing is a struggle
Rustling sound driven to the ears by a tender breeze, a guest whom we never dare to ever question, on a radium lit night, pull the mildest of the strings in your heart. A glistening round ball pasted …