Essays

Essays and reflections in English: on life, cities, cinema, society and the self.

  • Atonement

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    Since times immemorial, in my otherwise short life, I have been nurturing irrepressible urge for the atonement of my past. Driven by the pathetic present and desirous of glorious future,…

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  • A Night of Interlude

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    As I write these words at the odd hour of the day, or night as I must say, I feel to be in trance of gloom. My Allahabad also seems…

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  • Jon Snow rises again!

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    Courtesy – http://es.ign.com/juego-de-tronos/102924/news/asi-se-guardo-el-mayor-secreto-de-juego-de-tronos It seldom happens that an Allahabadi Whatsapp group gets ignited by anything other than a cricket match. Like many uncertainties hitting India, this one also hit me along…

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  • Traditionally vernacular; yet COSMOPOLITAN!

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    I am a mango man – I mean AAM AADMI, not related to AAP in any manner whatsoever- residing in the historical city of Allahabad. In fact, I do not…

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  • Nudity is Beautiful

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    Picture courtesy- http://scd.france24.com/en/files/imagecache/france24_ct_api_bigger_169/article/image/06062015%20kapoor%20vagina.jpg Nudity is aesthetic if one has an eye for it. Curiosity towards the exploration of nudity has regularly inspired many great acts that this world has ever…

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  • The Last Man

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    Oh Man!Why are you standing last?Asked the God I am meant to be hereMy Lord! Why do you say so?Why don’t you put a foot forward?What forbids you to reach…

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  • Changing Dimensions of Friendship

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    Today, out of boredom when I switched on my television and started surfing the channels, I ultimately stopped watching the last 30 minutes of a famous musical drama “DOSTI.” When…

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  • Government should negotiate Terrorism!!

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                World is a theatre and terrorists are using it not for enthralling the audience, but for spreading the terror. The scourge of terrorism is…

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  • De novo

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    This blog aims at presenting the legal  issues concerning us all in simple way. Comments-benign and lethal-are equally welcome. 

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  • Personal ambitions in Group activities

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    Human being is a social animal evolving continuously. Apart from various Darwinian factors of evolution, there are some abstract occurrences of daily life that lead to gradual development of human beings. Everyone…

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