John Lewis, you looked trouble In the eye, and from its womb Forged good trouble. From the march on Washington Till sixty…
When the Covid pestilence shall pass, Like Nature’s instructive visitation, I shall to the brim fill my glass, And celebrate the humbling…
The CBSE’s syllabus diktat seems to announce a clampdown on learning that may raise questions of macro-historical distress and discrimination that continue to plague the republic
Remember when we understood ‘sentiment’ As a human construct? Now, ‘sentiment’ defines the mood-swings Of the stock and share market. When…
Poor fig is just a lowly fruit, But fig leaves earn reward; They hid our shame in Paradise, And now they hide…
If God is Light, as the good book says, And Satan the Prince of Darkness be, Then is the seed of racism…
Bolsonaro has declared “God is Brazillian,” When here we thought God to be Hindu-Sanatan. Does God speak in the Hebrew tongue,…
I come to propitiate the monuments Installed by the confederates here. I come to refurbish the memory Of the Black Wall Street…
Some Fundamental Differences Between the genius of the “Oldest” and “Largest” Democracies
Sanity is a thing apart From a sanitizing chore; Sanity asks an equal world, And an open door. Sanity celebrates the…
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