Pradeep VM
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I know that words will not throw COVID out of our world. I say our world advisedly. With a virulent pandemic spreading at amazing speed in all its five or six variants, the risk is not confined to a geographic zone. It can never be so confined because SARS Cov 2 is not good with…
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I keep getting my timing wrong. With COVID. Like most people I also knew there was a second wave coming. But never guessed it would be so brutal. That is for forgetting old Malthus as I said elsewhere. There are just too many of us on the fragile blue planet. It is not fair to…
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Do not neglect the soul
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You need to go there.
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When life overcomes you, the lake is always there with its cool waters.
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You don’t like your life or your writing change them
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I tried it. I tell you it is hard. Really. Look at it this way. I am human not a hen. I have what I believe is a brain. And with no proof whatsoever I believe I live in my brain. Everything detected by my senses go to the brain. Then the brain tells me…
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Humans generally like things which are definite. Clear. Birth has that quality. A tiny baby comes into existence and cries too. Death is the opposite. We all know that and most of us fear that. Because what is ceases to be. For our consolation we say something left. We don’t know what. What happens after…
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Train your breath and your senses to focus
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This breed is so rare you have to catch hold of a bunch and stare through a microscope to find at least one good one. Mostly you will fail. As I said earlier the traditional publishing industry in India is so high brow that many do not even respond with a rejection mail. Believe it…