Author's Note: This is an exclusive post for the people who understand Hindi. For the rest, it falls flat. My husband's native tongue isn't Hindi. Neither is mine but having lived amongst Hindi-speaking people all my life, I can speak it without my native tongue's influence intruding. But living in India one cannot but be bombarded... Continue Reading →
Terrors Closer To Home
There' s no denying the utter unspeakability of the things happening to the people of Gaza. And the families of the people who have lost loved ones to the Malaysian Airlines disasters. Tragedies in every sense of the word. The civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the daily civilian casualties I mean.And yet when things happen... Continue Reading →
The Lure Of the Terrible
Like good things tempt us, bad things tempt us even more. When I say bad I don't necessarily mean sinful or decadent or even libertine in any way. I mean BAD as in how-in-God's-name-was-this-allowed-type bad. Movies fall into this category very well, thankfully because sometime your brain likes the jolt that comes from watching something... Continue Reading →
Random. Structured. Haphazard. All Me. 