My Elysium will ever be Beyond the purple hills Where the Hangul roams the cedar woods, And the Trout swims the rills.…
Tougher than the ease of business Is the ease of caring— An enterprise more challenging, More rich in daring. Its investment…
From Narendra Modi to Ram Madhav, the BJP is acting as if the apex court’s upcoming hearing on the legality of the Centre’s Kashmir move is of no consequence
He that once bore Perseus Upon his flying back From the ocean floor to the firmament Is now a virus in your…
For millennia on end, I stood On a mountain, showering light. Many marauders came to bring Me low with ignorant might. But,…
Be assured: the dazzle of neons Is not light. It is merely a parvenu fright. The lighting of a lamp Is quite…
All are quiet on the northern front, Our guns do the talking. Those disloyal to the guns Are cornered dead men walking.…
When a man you voted for Begins to speak of himself In third-person perfect, Know that the creature of your vote Is…
There is a word no longer heard, No longer in the human mind; As life moves its epistemes, Words get left behind.…
Friendship in the days of Capital Is a meager, seasonal thing. It is made of a hurried nod or two, And astute…
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