Stalking Streets

I'm a research scholar I'm doing everything else than Research. Everything seems to attract me only my topic falis in doing so. I am writing, but not what I suppose to write.I am reading but not what I suppose to. I am singing, dancing, painting and travelling in my daydreams which haunts me at night.  It might be a period of lockdown to all but for me it's a period when I'm feeling down because of full lock-up.  A life free of guide, research papers, conferences and submissions seems a happy bubble that keeps bursting day and night. I see nightmares of my guide dressed in the costume of a thesis asking me to wake up, write and just focus. I cannot enjoy as well as concentrate. Oh God! I am missing life. (Dedicated to all PhD Scholars)

In Asian countries, liberty to media has been a controversial issue. On one side, the right to information and freedom of expression has been provided while, on the other hand, regulations for media are there to curb its freedom. Historically “press freedom” is known as such because it was printers and newspapers that fought for this right, which nowadays refers to media in general. Although the freedom press was guaranteed in the first amendment but to what extent it? This freedom should be protected has been battled in court and debated in public for more than two centuries. I prefer the old saying: “if you give someone a foot, then they’ll take a mile.” means LIBERTY HAS NO END. If you give liberty, then they’ll take more. Media is mostly misused by political parties in India for the purpose of misrepresentation, where it acts as the fourth pillar of democracy. Many politicians, particularly in South India, have started channels either on their name or on their relatives like JAYA T...

Book Title: PALACE OF ILLUSIONS Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni   Background:  Palace of Illusions  by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni had been one of my favorite books from the last nine years. I read it in 2011 and was magnetized by Chitra's writing skills. As per Wikipedia, Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. Hence impersonating such an epic with remarkably efficiency creates mesmerization for the author too. The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is part history, partial myth, and stuffed with magical details. It has been narrated from Panchaali's perspective, the common wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers; the novel gives us a unique portrait of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharata.   The Storyline: The novel begins with Draupadi narrating her restricted lifestyle at her father's palace, her father's initial rejection to accept as her daughter, her dusky complexion, her curious nature, her i...

A tribute to all incomplete love stories.. I still have your letters with me. They are no more hidden in books, personal diaries, or closets. They're kept safely in my wife's locker. The ones that have descriptions of our would-be firsts and promises about the foreseen forevers, but sadly none of which could come true. I have kept them as a token of our pure love. To always remind me that somewhere you're happy with your husband, creating beautiful memories that we dreamt for ourselves. To always remember how cruel this society is! And to never forget the sacrifice of our unborn child, to keep you alive. This is a dedication to all those love stories which suffocated in the name of customs and family honor. (Based on an actual incident that I am penning down as a novella)

My Initial Days in Quarentine at Manipal University, Jaipur At times, When Govt is fighting Day and Night to control the spread of this deadly virus; when everyday thousands of warriors walk towards the front line. How scary one can expect a scenario where you don’t know what not to touch!! It feels like to walk in a battlefield filled with land mines and hail storm of bullets coming,  with every breath they take with fear in those chambers of hospitals filled with Corona patients, a single mistake and it’s all over for them. But they have to do it! And Yes, they do it, because it’s their duty. But what is our duty? My duty? I guess, I know the answer now, a few weeks back I have seen a lot of people complaining on social media about problems they face at quarantine centres. They feel uncomfortable there. Really uncomfortable? Try going to a hospital for a few days to treat a corona patient and then I will ask you how comfortable you'd be? On 12th April, unfortunately a ...