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“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 […]

Humans are social animals. For valid reasons, COVID-19 may have locked us down physically; it will never succeed in dwarfing or curbing our infinite spiritual freedom. Humans have successfully endured numerous difficult times in the past and that is how nearly 8 billion of us are currently living on the […]

In many tricky and polarised socio-political situations, it is not uncommon to see a considerable number of people choosing to  retreat stealthily into the background and hide behind one pretext or the other. Apparently, for fear of annoying and / or losing one or both opposing parties, they don’t want to be seen […]

Two days ago, a young doctor friend, a brilliant medical specialist, forwarded me a number of myth busters issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO): People of all ages CAN be infected by the coronavirus. Older people and people with pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease) appear […]