Month: May 2020

Poetry

Blue Skies Over Delhi

Children in Delhi are staring upwards, listen as they shout, amazed. “It’s just like in the story books” I hear one small girl cry. “I saw the colour once before, the eye of a peacock feather,” another shouts and tries to gauge what this new brightness means. Yesterday, over Delhi, […]

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Social Distancing is Bringing Us Closer Together

By Mark Antony Rossi Strange how a global calamity can bring people closer together. It’s even more ironic when asked to social distance (staying six feet away from each other) winds up bringing people to a more neighborly position. I wish I knew why it took thousands to die for […]

Poetry

A Riddle To Decode

The life is a maze – a labyrinth With winding, curving  lanes, We may turn ‘N look behind us But can’t walk back again. The path has many ups and downs With boulders, pebbles and thorns, Though sometimes and for someone Flowers might this road adorn. There is an omnipotent […]

Poetry

Live To Write

I walked into the coffee shop told the young woman I only came in here to see her, I will be here every day from now on she said. See you tomorrow I said. A sat in the sun for an hour then went to another coffee shop. I told […]

Poetry

Purpose

swiftly she enters the shoe store the fragrance of Sampaguita  wafts in the atmosphere a vendor with bare and filthy feet with some wounds in her legs she begins selling the flowers until a lady notices her much to her amazement the lady requests her  to fit one of the […]

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My Questions Do Not End

If, what is happening – Now in Life is Reality, Hard Reality, Turbulence or Chaos, What was happening Before CoVID-19? Illusion? Unlife? Hard Dream? Surrealism? Maya? Confusion? Madness? Rim Reality? Or, the civilized mankind was trapped In the world – Of the most deadliest viruses – Like fundamentalism, barbarism, Megalomania, […]

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A Gentle Reminder

Dear Oh dear Are you in a rush? Hold on a second, please come near. There’s a thing I need to remind. Let go the desires that make you blind. You are the best I ever gave birth. Gave you a life, assured no dearth. To cut, to kill, to […]

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Eric Schmidt vs Elon Musk: Why AI is Here to Stay

By Mr. Soumik Sarkar  ““By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” –Eliezer Yudkowsky A few years back, American business magnate, investor and engineer Elon Musk  — of Tesla and  SpaceX fame — had fired back at Mark Zuckerberg over […]