“I got up early today. The sun was already throwing its rays to the sky, but it was not seen yet. I felt hungry. The roots and nuts we had stored from yesterday were for the children only. Our huts were on top of the hill, and I surveyed the massive plain below. Bushes dotted […]
Meditation and the Ego- ‘de-me’ing oneself
I am always thinking, you know. Thinking crap. How I slipped and fell on that beautiful girl at the party yesterday. What an embarrassment! About what my wife said about me in the morning. How could she? After all that I have done for her in the past week.(One, two , three etc). Oh, that […]
Tobacco and the search for truth
I went to a government public school in Trichur in Kerala. There the boys start smoking early. My friend and classmate Anees Ibrahim started in the sixth standard. I don’t know where he got the money to get cigarettes and beedis from, but he was smoking all the time. Whenever the teacher was not in […]
Ideology- Tales that thrill- and kill
A venerable old official sleeps at a meeting. The Dictator orders him killed. It is interesting to think that the Dictator was originally part of a plan for the salvation of all mankind- a plan for an equal and just society. Let us go back a few years. At a meeting to felicitate Stalin, as […]
Why Nationalism is like Money
-Both are valuable and essential. Have doubts?- ask a bankrupt man. Or ask a Palestinian, a refugee from Syria lurking on international borders or a hemi-nation in a warring region of Africa. -One can inherit it. If we have benefitted from the status quo, we can have too much of either. -An excess can lead […]