Harduk Bahaar ?The Spring of Autumn? by Zareef Ahmad Zareef (Translated from the original Kashmiri by Neerja Mattoo) Rejoice, for autumn is here?the unripe ripens! Delight in the joys of autumn, its blooms of multihued flowers! The ones who toiled in spring will now reap the harvest. Delight in the joys of autumn, its blooms […]
Month: February 2014
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When Vinod Mehta returned to India, he was 27 and with his modest savings quickly running out, he was expected to soon make a honest living instead of living off his long-suffering parents. His long hair, kurta-pyjama and broken English ensured that his first job after returning from Britain was that of an advertising copywriter […]
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“Satire and derision progressively attacked even the fundamental and most sacred facts of faith,” leading to an increased doubt towards religion by the general population. Touched by an Angel We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to […]
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“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves,”?Einstein allegedly smirked.??Like a bee that settles on the fragrant pistils of a flower, and sips in the nectar for honey, so should you sip in the nectar from between the lips of your love,?
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When we deny our interior lives to others, we deny ourselves all knowledge of it as well. We are unaware of what, unhindered, they would choose to do, how they presently feel, the strength of their of their resolve, what may in consequence ensue. My greastest insights are sought when i’m just engaged in some […]
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the humanist has to be adversarial to power rather than bellicose on its behalf ? it is afterall, one of the rare events where thousands, sometimes seated with breathtaking symmetry,wait submissively for hours to listen to one man or woman talk for another few. How you cant listen to the other person moaning about their […]