noir et blanc

i always was an avid reader. I read Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird in high school. Obviously over all these years, I forgot the details of the story. I just remembered the main guy, Atticus Finch. I clearly remember, he then hadn't made my female...

That moment, that day, or night, or evening, which changes the dynamic.The moment you wipe out the lines you so carefully drew on the sand with your toenail, and cross over to the other side. The night when you give yourself to someone, for the first...

On Intolerance Heathens, Kafirs, idolators, superstitious, cowardly, backward- there are so many adjectives Hindus have been adorned with, time and again. Hindus are one group that have been subjected to much intolerance and oppression.We have found ourselves...

Well well, it's the era of revolutions everywhere. From the Hindutva revolutions( seemingly) to the political popular revolutions, why should sex be left behind? That too, had a revolution. Finally, Sprout Pharmaceuticals decided that women too, need...

A reference from 'The Real Thing" -Tom Stoppard's 1982 play 'Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face..." History, literature, art, music-all...

As some of us might already be knowing, the NDA government, through the DST,is funding a project to study the impact of yoga on human health. This is an important venture and highlights the growing relevance of yoga in today's times. It also reflects...

I was just pondering over the topic of mental health today, depression being the major chunk. Instantly, of course, focus shifted on the most dreadful, serious consequence; the end point of depression- SUICIDES. The tendency, the idea, and the act of...

"From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each...

A reference from ABZ 'If you are as interested in sex as you say you are, then there is a really lovely book about it in my study-on a top shelf. It's red, and it's called the ABZ of love"-Kurt Vonnegut. If we look through a piece of glass, irregularities...

Love, according to Adrienne Rich,is "An honorable human relationship-one in which two people have the right to use the word 'love'-is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they tell each...