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TV Series Review-Fargo

If you are a crime anthology fan, do not miss Noah Hawley’s masterpiece ‘Fargo’. The television series has five seasons and is one of the highest-rated shows by Rotten Tomatoes. The show made its first appearance on television, thanks to the FX network...

The Prison Architect

Z, one of the greatest architects of his times, was summoned by the Emperor to design a prison. The outside of the prison was to be designed in the shape of a round clock. The hands of the clock were to be made of platinum while the roman numerals, ind...

On Comfort

I think it sometimes comforts us to feel impermeable. There is a sense of safety in sitting still. As for me, I’m trying to feel more secure in presuming, in constant change-in finding solidity with unknown places and people, actual or intellectual. It...

Salvia Divinorum

The transcendence of body from this realm was jarring. The room was blasting waves around me, and I got up with a violent jerk. It was then that some non-entity/entity told me that I shouldn’t worry as my friend is here. I called out my friend’s name a...

For Ashok Sir

Two days back, after a long time, I spoke to one of my favorite people. He was my Economics teacher. He hardly taught me the subject he was employed to teach me. We’d spend most of the days playing chess and debating politics in his house. He was old e...

Doctor Sax

Doctor Sax gave me an expensive fix. It initially felt like your everyday screamer. He said, "You could travel through time with a time machine. With this you can travel through fantasies." It was funny to look at and even funnier to taste. You couldn’...

Beginning of A Travel Story

The airplane was suddenly enveloped in a giant cloud. The inside of the well-lighted plane became gradually darker and the white mountaintops below that I could see from the window were no longer visible. Before the story or the airplane goes any furth...

To the Woman with the Strength of Two

There is very less that I, a man can write about motherhood. All that I can write about is from watching and admiring the strongest woman I’ve ever known for twenty-four years. For twenty-four years and counting she has played the role of a father as w...

Writing about Writing

Writing about writing is one of my favourite exercises. There are days when the mind feels as light as a feather and on other days, as heavy as an anchor. Writing feels like making a small hole in the mind’s reservoir of untapped emotions. The only thi...

Living in a Post-Covid World

Mankind has always aspired to play God under the guise of science or politics. Mother Nature, however, has time and again, reminded human beings of the dangers of that endeavour-be it the Black Death, the Bubonic Plague, The Spanish flu, or the invisib...