Quantity versus Quality

I’m sitting alone inside my head and wondering best how to utilise the free time that I have. A voice at the farthest corner keeps whispering that I’m doing it all wrong. I hear the dying whispers and ignore it. I know it speaks the truth and the truth is what I fear. As little …

Interview with a Writer – Part Two

*** Continued from Part One*** The first interview post was regarding Cheryl's blog and how she manages to keep up the tempo with her writing and sketching. This one, here, is closer to my heart because in this one I am more of a fellow writer and less of a fan boy. In the last post, …

Interview with a Writer – Part One

I have been at this for a long long time. I owe Cheryl an apology for sitting on this. I sat on this for so long that I'm sure she began doubting if I'll ever get to the day when I actually post this. A little more than a year ago I contacted her on …

Quote 12: Muhammad Ali

There was a boy of 19 who fancied a girl in his class. In his eyes there wasn’t another prettier face in the whole college. At least, not the attainable pretty. The beauties were abound, but they lived in a wholly different universe. They spoke only oily English and their Hindi was such that they …

Quote 11: Nelson Mandela

A life well spent. That’s what people call a thriving young man who has a good job (which means he has a car and a house he can call his own (20 years in the making because of paying off the loan)) a beautiful wife (sanctioned by the society which means that she should be …

Quote 10: Pope John XXIII

An age old adage and An older solemn man Gushing proverbs And hackneyed Stories. Bustling fire, Around them folks Of across the Towns sit. Muttering discomfort And lack of downs To comfort the Aching behinds, But they sit. The older man, with A trembling jaw, And an incomprehensible Tongue, had an Audience Of close to …

Quote 9: Paul Valery

I can swing this in my writing direction and make it a metaphor for my failed state as a writer, but I’ve decided that this post won’t be another writing whine. Cooking. It’s the first thing that came in my mind when I read this quote. I don’t cook, but I’ve had enough girls (my …

Quote 8: Alexandra David-Neel

I’ll take this by its horns. I usually don’t. I look for subterfuge to escape things so that I don’t have to make an assessment or a judgement call. At least till it’s not really imperative that I do. My writing life has been the very definition of lackadaisical. These quotes that I work on? …

Quote 7: Edmund Hillary

They called it a feat. I walked the thin line Of emancipation with A tight fist And a fake smile. Peppered a folksy proverb With a folksy wave And a light-hearted Anecdote. That's what some like. Small stories. Small stories With large metaphors And larger heroics. Because who the hell Fights a war that lasts Generations? …

Journal Entry Nine

Serendipity. Although, I don't really know what exactly is so awesome/beneficial about this, but this is the closest word I remembered for this. Journal Entry Eight was a year ago.  Journal Entry Seven was almost 2 years ago. Thankfully, Journal Entry Six was just just 5 days before Seven. So, in a nutshell, I've got 3 …