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Four Life Lessons from Four World Poets
Read more: Four Life Lessons from Four World PoetsIn the expanse of touch Life happens Oceans burp out of mouths And percussions of the stomach play out But we are living in Corona times where social distancing is humanity’s defence against the virus. The pandemic has claimed more than a million lives and has created a sense of fear amongst us. “More than…
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The Wall is Wearing
Read more: The Wall is WearingDear Readers and Listeners Third episode of the podcast kavitayen@hubhopper is here. Its titled: The Wall is Wearing. Before inserting the link to the episode let me share where it wells out from. So the first thought which led to this episode was that sometimes the modern concept of security can make us feel insecure…
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Reading Idgah by Munshi Premchand
Read more: Reading Idgah by Munshi PremchandIdgah is a story written by Munshi Premchand. It was published in 1933, when India was still under colonial rule. The story gives a tele-micro-nanoscopic view of realities of its space and time. While focusing on the interaction of children in the story with the spaces constructed and created by adults (which contained within it…
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Vincentness in Lust for Life
Read more: Vincentness in Lust for LifeLust for life is a fictional biography of Vincent Van Gogh by Irving Stone. I read this book or rather I should say I experienced it. It journeys the story of the life of Vincent Van Gogh: the ‘lunatic’, the artist who started ‘too late’. He was twenty seven. Until he reached this number, he…
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Is There a Difference Between a Poem and a Song?
Read more: Is There a Difference Between a Poem and a Song?Languages are born with intonations and into intonations. They are primarily sound waves. Musicality is also constitutive of waves. Now, does that bring to your imagination: sea waves, air waves, microwaves etc.etc.etc.? Yes, we breathe and live in a wavy galaxy. There was the silence. And then boom! The waves happened. The sound happened. The words…