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11.10 am Work is heavy. And hectic as always. Which is good. But news of the death of people due to COVID or of critical situation due to the infection is just a text or phone call away. I have friends in COVID ICU. Family members in regular ICU. Family friends just back from hospital…
Good Morning World: The Gift.
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Good Morning World: Finding the Real Me under the Camouflage
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Good Morning World. Of Dusk, Baked Potatoes, and Rest #dusk #sunset #coronavirus #lockdown #wfh #bhajans #grandmother #family #poverty #middleclass #goodmorningworld #thebengali #sleep #pune #india #existentialism #self
“I am still beautiful,” she said, looking up at me wistfully. Her rosy cheeks were withered, under the onslaught of the hot sun. She had been standing there patiently for someone to notice her. But nobody had. And now there were others like her, younger, prettier. Yes, she is beautiful, I thought. I had never…
I like not knowing. Because when I don’t know, I can discover and find out and so the travelling makes sense. Like yesterday I was enjoying and shivering in the cold rainstormy weather in Mumbai – I didn’t know what the weather was like in Doha. And so, when I got out of the air-conditioned…
Being asked not to meet people, not to write, not to talk to people, not to express oneself is like being told not to live. And yet people do it. As a price for love. And that’s how love dies. And out of that death is born obligation. And that obligation becomes life. And out…
I admire the concept of ‘Humility’. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say I admire people who have ‘Humility’. I admire them because I don’t have an ounce of humility in my being, and therefore, I admire such people and look forward to meeting them, and spending time with them. I have turned…
One Book that I am currently writing is what I call “The Book of Dreams”. And there is a good reason for the title. I live in the twilight of prose and poetry, city and village, dream and reality, art and science, business and non-profit activities … you get the drift. The book is…