Month: April 2020

These words – a poem in Urdu, “Yeh Alfaz”, by Bill Koul (with English translation after the Urdu version)

Dua Maut Se’ – a poem in Urdu by Bill Koul (The English translation, “A plea to Death” is below the Urdu version.)

“Ruu-ba-ruu tujse, mere Khuda” – a poem in Urdu by Bill Koul, with English translation after the Urdu version

“You make feel delusional, O Life!” – a poem in Urdu by Bill Koul: “Behaka deti hai tu, O Zindaghi”

A poem

‘Wishes don’t fly, birds fly.’ No sooner had I realised this truth umpteenth time during my run this morning than I received a full load of warm bird dropping on my head and shoulders. I looked up. Right above my head, a seagull was perched on a branch of a […]

‘Where is your dog today?’ shouted a regular morning walker from across the road, as we passed each other on The Esplanade, along Canning River in Mount Pleasant, around 6 am this morning. It was still a little dark. Overhead, the sky was cloudy, threatening to pour. I stopped and […]

Humans exhibit herd behaviour in many aspects of life. Unlike cattle, however, they are born with thinking faculties that could set them apart from cattle but only if those faculties were used to their full extent; however, which does not happen in all cases. Not surprising, therefore, a characteristic herd […]

The current phase of human history, aptly termed as ‘The Great Pause’ by some wise intellectuals, presents each one of us with an excellent once-a-lifetime opportunity to reflect on ourselves and the world we live in. We have been presented with a timely opportunity to assess how we have been […]

The Other Side of the current phase – hopefully, lurking over the horizon and possibly beginning in a few months or, perhaps, even a year from now – will undoubtedly not be a sharp turnaround and return to the ‘old’ normal, but a hazy, long and bumpy transition to a […]