How a recourse to Content Writing spelled my Redemption?

It’s not that difficult to decide whether you are a hack or a writer, when you mechanically, monotonously and quite without a definitive surge of emotions, string together words so that they make cohesive sense as a whole, syntactically or otherwise, just that and nothing more, without giving a damn about what you have written, […]

Belong

Belong? Do I belong to the shaitan of my city? The one with the divine proclamation to sin. The one who maintains a balance of justice, with the sharp of his blade, The one who tots the gun and bares his teeth, If I fail to toe the line, set by him. A rigged puppet […]

The Other Universe

I have had an interesting childhood. Having never been interested in sports overmuch (partly because I wasn’t good at anything), I used to vicariously lead the life of superheroes, local as well as of phoren import, fighting their battles, facing their dilemmas, adoring their love-interests (Shaktimaan’s Geeta, the feisty reporter comes to one’s mind), and […]

The Gas had breached the Barrier

Fuck. It was beautiful. The sky was overcast, with eternal darkness. Thunder rumbled somewhere over the opposite court, on the other side of the horizon… An unassaulted street lamp shed its light on the shifty-eyed earth, which was shying away from illumination; guilt wrought large upon her otherwise inscrutable face – which heaved and sighed, […]

Book Review: ‘My Life and Work’ by Henry Ford

Review: 4 stars I have read books by writers with fanciful imagination. Finally, I got time enough to read one by the author who has always captured people’s fancy and imagination. His accomplishments have inspired many, and we can’t really do without his useful little contraption. A rigorous capitalist who wishes to do a service […]

Book Review : Dead in a Mumbai Minute

I expected it to be a good read, but not a cracker! Yet I was pleasantly surprised by Dead in a Mumbai Minute by Madhumita Bhattacharyya. What a reader really loves is a well-conceived story. Unfortunately, in India, anything goes in the name of the story. Normally the characters lack depth, storyline is weak and […]

Book Review: A Princess of Mars

John Carter is truly the Rajnikanth of Barsoom (Mars). Aided by a low gravity of Mars, he is seen skipping the surface, literally flying in the air to dispatch a throng of soldiers in order to save a damsel in distress. In The Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Carter has no compunction in […]

How to screw a perfectly fine Interview?!

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. – Napoleon 1 For some people, failure is a setback; for some, it a learning opportunity; for others, failure is success in disguise; for the writers of the self-help books, failure is a source of employment. But for me, failing is an art. […]

Book Review: Cosmos

Why aren’t we going to space anymore? Why the space program is facing increasing budget cuts while nations have burgeoning defense allocation? Why is feeding the needy brought up as an argument against sending probes up in space? These rhetorical questions do indeed have an answer. We no longer have a Carl Sagan, an Isaac […]

Movie Review: Nebraska

For quite some time, I felt that reviewing a movie isn’t my cup of tea. I am not an expert on what public likes, or how many types of acting are there, cinematography or technical direction. I like what I like. But this movie made me write this. I am a huge fan of the […]