Category: Ballads

  • Salute the Slytherin.

    Salute the Slytherin.

    On World Snake Day… “Slytherin!” shouted the sorting hat. The boy was not happy to be joining the table, of silver serpents though it could his stepping glory to being invincible. —JKRowlings Harry Potter series. Snakes, are mysterious, terrifying, ambassadors of vice, propagators of victory they are beautiful and scary and an important link in…

  • A Xocolatl-Ode

    There are some days, that deserve to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy a box of chocolates and warm energetic companion, today is definitely one of those days, for today is the International chocolate day, an observance that occurs globally every year. Celebration includes consumption of chocolate;…

  • Mutation Not Evolution.

    An interesting prompt. How do we teach kids to keep environment safe? The answer is WE DON’T, the onus of keeping the earth safe, for human existence is on us and not the kids. Let’s  just take a deep a breathe, and connect with the environment, ever thought of it? Turn the television off, the…

  • Chaitra Shukla Padya.

    Chaitra Shukla Padya.

    The first day of the brand new calendar year is  an empowered time to psychologically unwind to mentally find ones own life charged emotionally with refined energy and enthusiasm to create a beautiful growth paradigm within the physically defined laws of nature and rules of the game called LIFE. Today is the onset of new…

  • A Sacred Grove –Nagvemcha Raya

    A Sacred Grove –Nagvemcha Raya

    Growing up in western coastal towns, Nagabana, the placement of Garadi all made me realize that the ethnic religious cult was very close to nature and revered nature. Unfortunately it is being devoured by the more powerful brahmanical cult. Interestingly Kalidasa’s Vikramuurvashiiya talks of Nakshatravana or the green patch. The legend of Urvashi also has…

  • Ushas the Lady of the Dawn

    #Colgate3600charcoalGold The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea…” the smell of coffee wafting up, and I was transported to Bailoor my childhood holiday home, the destination of all forbidden things, like the morning coffee, the swim in the river, the hot rice porridge, the tangy mango pickle, evening of cards and gossip.…