Religion 101: Literature & Dissent

If you take away God from people, they will make you their new God Human beings have this markable skill of thinking. Bundled with the perfect storing structure of the human mind and ever-evolving ways to capture the thoughts (read: ideas), humans have come a long way from where they first started. We think almost…

Know Your Metabolism

Metabolism is the chemical processing occurring inside your body. It helps burn down the food you consume into simpler parts and then helps those parts get absorbed by body to utilize the food. Depending on your genetics and much more, you may have a metabolism anywhere from slow to fast. A fast metabolism would mean…

Arranged Governance

Think about the arranged marriage concept. Parents get to know the requirement and search for partners. Then the boy & the girl meet. They have a subtle deadline in front of them before which they must gauge each other and take the important decision of whether or not they should tie the knot.Now think about…

Awwal allah noor upayeKudrat ke sab bandeIk noor se sab jag upjayakon bhale kon mande (Every person born by the blessing of one true God is a nature’s child. All of them come from one holy light, then who is bad and who is good?) I was 9 years old. Living in a dingy neighborhood…

Every Body has a story

When I was young, my parents put me in a public school. Public schools in India means those not run by state by privately, meaning they would be more expensive than government schools and would justify the additional cost by engaging the students enrolled in various co-curricular activities to ‘develop’ the student ‘holistically’. Well, despite…

Religion 101: How it started

If you take away God from people, they will make you their new God Human beings have this markable skill of thinking. Bundled with the perfect storing structure of the human mind and ever-evolving ways to capture the thoughts (read: ideas), humans have come a long way from where they first started. We think almost…

Humanity? Or Existence?

For the longest time, I have been in search of a higher way of living. A way of living that is inclusive of all. Men, women, animals, birds. Combined. I placed my trust in human beings. Being at top of the food chain, they had the power and position to make decisions for every being…

I Met Batman- Part 1

Batman This story I am about to tell is of a lady named Sati. Born before partition in Haryana, India, the society and life this lady saw is much different from what we see today. Back then in newly free India, women had fewer rights. Discrimination was so subtly ingrained in culture, and more so…

Leap for Mirages

AAAHHHHHH!! You are so impossible sometimes! God! I’m merely putting my opinion forward. That is why you asked me this question, wasn’t it? Yeah, yeah! But I value your opinion and now that I know it is against what I want, it sucks! Well, it is still your call. No, this whole plan is down…

A BORN COWARD- Part 2

Two years had passed. Our kid-hero was in the 7th standard now. It was the Geography class, boring as usual. To top the boring lecture was the sun beating down on the old classroom windows, making the fans pointless and the class a burning furnace. Everyone was eyeing the period bell to ring. There was…