You and I
Just when I had nothing to do with you, The cosmic dance, yet again, Spun you and I together We’re dancing on our tiptoes But I think, here I am…
To Anne, With Love
Our prettiest Anne, We've obviously never met you, but we miss you; because we've read you. We've seen you being best friends with paper, We've known you as Kitty's best…
The Beauty of Comparative Literature
Comparative literature is the academic discipline in which people read of tropes, ideas and all in all plots, in juxtaposition with other tropes, ideas and plots, esp. those that belong…
Is Book Culture Dying?
We're losing our will to peruse, so what really can one deduce? Is it us being hardcore material? or is it our unwillingness to choose? To choose between a book,…
The God Within
I decided one day to look beneath,Not the eyes, not the skin, but the soul underneath.I got up and looked at my reflectionhere, my flaws changed to perfectionThere went my…
We are all broken
We are all brokenImperfectEveryone is missing somethingBut that is what makes us uniqueAlthoughThat uniqueness is fading away nowEveryone is adhering to same fashionAnd trendsSame haircut and breadSame face structure and…
Derridean Deconstruction – A Septet
کھُلتے چلے ہیں دَر و دَریچے خیال سے.ہر اِک جواب جنم لیتا ہے سوال سےپوچھو! کہ ساری بندشیں ناکام ٹھہرائوپرچم دِغیدا کا تُم سرِ بام لہرائوموضوع ہی بدل دو ذرا…
Oh…behave!
So.. You read Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, philosophy too You can recite the poignant verses of Yeats’ ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ And the passionate lines of a Pablo Neruda love poem You seek…
An Embryonic Stage
Embryonic stagea conscious being you were.In a bubble of uncertainty,possibly obscurity,fighting for survivalwaiting for your arrival. Feelings of vibrational energy,desire to survive,learning to navigatethrough a field of confusion,that's no illusion.…