Category: Ballads
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Dedication to the unknown soldier
The 11th Standard English text had a play I forgotten its name. The play was set between the two world wars. A scientist creates a bomb. He was boasting about it to his sister. The sister has just lost her son. When she sees her brother gloating she gets very upset that someone like him…
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country mouse
I rather gnaw bran than gnawed by fear What would I prefer the city or the country? Remember the fable we heard as kids? The country mouse and the town mouse. A town mouse or shall we say city mouse here, visits the country mouse. The country mouse treats him to the standard country fare…
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Sita-Ahalya-Tadaka
The Ramayana talks of three women. Tadaka she was killed by Rama Ahalya was supposed to have been redeemed by Rama Sita the spouse. Somewhere these women are not given their due. No matter what symbolization or explanation we give it is only a document of power play and oppression. Assuming that Ramayana is a…
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Country roads take me home.
Home is where the hearth, heals. Home is where the hearth, is – A jataka tale talks of a fishmonging woman who visits her friend. Her friend honours her with a room, with fragrant flowers, but the fishmonging woman could not sleep she needed the smell of fish. Hearth of warmth, a comfort zone where…
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Happy birthday scotland yard
Lestrade in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Japp in Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot series. Both belong to that great Mecca of whodunits, the Scotland Yard, which is a metonym for the metropolitan police of London, and synonym with the CID of London metropolitan police. The department was so called as it was located at…
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