Greed O noble Greed, much maligned and hated, more sinned against than sinning yourself, come to me and bring your life giving force, which compelled man to evolve and grow and make of life a little more than mere existence!! That is my morning prayer. I love greed. Why, in the name of God, and […]
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ART AS GENDERED LITERATURE [Sent to Mukta, Telangana Women’s Collective through Vimala Katineni on 28th January 2017] I shall not dwell interminably on the history of art in Telangana or what, if at all, was its feminist content. As a writer who once had the ambition to be a painter because of considerable appreciation from
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This is a conversation I had with my friends and acquaintances over WhatsApp when the hurt I felt about the lynching of Muslims, broke my and their silence. I thought we have heard many debates from the apologists and the dissenters. Should you not hear it from the horse’s mouth? Should not the bigger issue
Dream. Dream on. It is this dream that will make you complete. The dreams that we build in wide open eyes, when we should actually be seeing reality; the dream that represents our innermost desire to be our own unique self, by bringing it to fruition; the dream to be an artiste, to perform, to
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Invisibility manifests itself in several ways. First, the paradox of invisibility is that we have to be conscious of the existence of the Other, to render him invisible. A non-existent entity is invisible by definition. Second, this consciousness has to be, what we will call, for lack of a better descriptive term, ‘ghost-visibility’. It is
ULYSSES – Alfred Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete out and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and fed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
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