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Reflection – The link between Experience and Learning

I write because someone wrote to me today. Caught up in my new job teaching two courses to MA students studying Human Resource Management at my very own alma mater, I have not had much time for reflection in these last couple of months, which by the way, should explain the lack of activity (poetry) [ READ MORE ]

The last note to sanity

What is with you? Do not try to step across the line, do not push it. The line belongs to fate and the benefit of doubt goes to the line. Loneliness is only an illusion; The world is crowded with people. Madness is only a perception. Not being sane all the time is a sure [ READ MORE ]

Very long from now, when I run into you,

I will not be surprised. I can not say why I won’t be surprised. We need reasons to do something, not to not-do something. But if you insist, let me muster a reply. Because I will have been expecting it all along – like one expects death to end this dream of a life so that [ READ MORE ]

Let There Be Light

 published in the Nov 3 -Nov 10, 2010 issue of DU beat (www.dubeat.com)   Imagine yourself journeying. On the road, in absolute darkness. Darkness as absolute as only darkness could be. Do you want to take the next step, knowing not what lies ahead? Neither are you in cognizance of the perils of the road, nor [ READ MORE ]

A Woman’s Revenge

When she found out that her man had slept with another woman, She cried till her eyes were blood red And then she made him promise that he would never do it again, And that he would love her forever. . It was only when she left him for good  immediately afterwards That he realized the reason behind her consequent smile. What he had taken [ READ MORE ]

Smell (a short story)

Another day had slipped up on me and forgotten, or shall I concede, negligently ignored my name from its list. So there I was - on my way back home in the Local train on the Central line, watching the sun go down beyond the Western Lines.   We must have all been smelling bad at [ READ MORE ]

The Myth of the Genie

We have all heard the story about the Genie who promised to kill the man he served, if he were not given anything else to accomplish. Before that of course, arises the question, where and how did the man exactly find the lamp? The believing existentialists (Søren Aabye Kierkegaard et al) would claim that it was strategically placed [ READ MORE ]

Words are Curious Creatures – Example One

One fine day, when you thought you had all clarity, you took yourself to the verge of a major decision – say about love. As chance would have it (though it could have had it any other way and it would be equally justifiable), you were going through the dictionary looking for the meaning of [ READ MORE ]

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