Category: Ballads

  • World Lizard Day

    World Lizard Day

    On World Lizard Day, we honor creatures who balance ecosystems, inspire myths, survive millennia—and occasionally issue press releases denying they run the planet.

  • The River Beneath The Hill.

    The River Beneath The Hill.

    Kokoro-Baka is the vidhushaka or the wise fool who speaks from the heart. Here he shares the story of Hiroshima in the Japanese story telling format called the Rakugo

  • Remembering Munshi Premchand

    Remembering Munshi Premchand

    “Premchand’s women aren’t just characters—they’re mirrors of emotional resilience, quiet rebellion, and moral complexity in a world that often denied them voice.”

  • 🧁 The Pie’d Programmer of Techville

    🧁 The Pie’d Programmer of Techville

    “Call me Pi’d Piper,” he said, plugging in his flute-shaped USB. “I write elegant code in 22/7 lines or less—and I accept pie.”

  • On Rocky Terrain

    On Rocky Terrain

    Rocks are Earth’s memory keepers — bones of the planet, storytellers of time. Beneath each step lies a fossil, a myth, a map still listening.

  • Ode On Guru Purnima.

    Ode On Guru Purnima.

    On Guru Purnima, we honor Vyasa—born of river and sage—who reconciles Brihaspati’s dharma and Shukra’s desire through the layered storytelling of Mahabharata.