Go back 20 years down the memory lane and you would have found Bengaluru as a clean calm city filled with Lal baghs, vidyarthi bhavans, MTRs, bugul rocks and the list goes on, probably no one would have ever imagined in their wildest dreams that a city known as “Garden city of India” would one [...]
She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life. My small life, short one, spanning only eight years. I remember how I used to peep through the flowing yellow curtains of her room, just to catch a glimpse of her, every morning before I went to school. She used to stand [...]
She was distraught. After all these years, he’d left her. Instinct told her that he’d left her for another woman, perhaps a woman much younger than herself. As she sat at the window of her ground-floor flat, looking out onto the neat, handkerchief garden, a cup of coffee in her hand, her eyes misted over. [...]
I’ll go to the place where the colors of the rainbow are million in number and I’ll count each without threat of slumber when everybody i trust lets me down and joy doesn’t know the way to my town when i’m blinded by love and refuse to take caution and watch on as my better-half [...]
When I was little,and everythingI heard was true the adults said God painted the sky blue to them,I was too inquisitive to be seven so when granpa died,they said he’d journeyed to heaven I’d go to jail if I ever stole so i fervently asked for sweets in the toffee-bowl my guardian angel cuddled me [...]
someday i’ll wake up and smell the air just to realize it’s a another sunny day the light is so bright and the sky is just standing by it’s a wonder how we all live and i wonder how i’m gonna get by you tell me sister i’m by your side you tell me i’m [...]
The main question that many leaders in NATO and the EU are asking themselves after Russia’s adventure into Georgia is how to stop Russian forces from invading another country at will. But looking forward, beyond the recent incident in Georgia, the West has a bigger question to ask itself. The question is whether or not [...]
Since he was elected as next President of the United States on the historical Tuesday, Obama scheduled several meetings with world leaders including President Medvedev of Russia. Two leaders, both relatively young and active, will talk various subjects on mutual disarmament over the next several years. Here are two issues on which Obama commented on [...]
Have you ever thought about why you write? What is it that makes you spend, perhaps, hours a day scribbling or tapping away at a keyboard? For some it’s ‘just a way of earning a living’. And why not! If we’re observant enough, and articulate enough, to express our ideas such that others will pay [...]
In Islamabad, a bomb exploded in Marriott hotel, and killed more than 50 people including the Czech Ambassador (as of 21 September). Allegedly, religious extremists and terrorists nesting in Pakistan conducted the strike, according to government officials, scholars, and journalists. Regardless of Pakistani position of the so-called “war on terrorism,” its unstable domestic security is [...]