Tag: with malice
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The House of Echoes: Where Silence Becomes Law
In 1975, they silenced voices with fear. In 2025, they drown them in slogans. We’re not free—we’re just quieter beneath the noise.
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The Feminist Maverick’s Manifesto
By Maa Crookamati. 🔮 INVOCATION I invoke the power of compost and contradiction.I do not seek a throne — I claim the kitchen garden, the broken bylane, the tribal rhythm, and the whistle of a pressure cooker during load-shedding. May we become proud Indians, not because we stand taller, but because we kneel deeper —…
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M.G.Road…Mohandas or Mahatma
I am just back from lucknow, but kind of confused the routine has not yet set in. My sister’s grandson curls up on to my knee. “Gustavo” he said pointing at the image of a frail man, clad in an above knee dhoti the upper cloth animatedly fluttering and of course the trademark horn rim…
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The Entity called spouse.
It is Friday and instead of nursing my Robusta at the mango meadows or 91 springboard, and mulling over why Kerala got flooded, I am listening to Maria go combusta… “How can I prove that I am alive? Do you think slicing my wrist will help.” Though the right answer for that would have been,…
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Fret-Flight
Some blighter in his lack of wisdom, said that our learning capacity decreases with age. It really isn’t so, instead of Makemytrip.com and its infuriating customer care we opted to book through Yatra.com who actually do not care for customers. The fly out trip was quite uneventful and just when I accepted that with age…
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Pravasi Divas
To me Pravasi always meant traveler So ideally Pravasi Divas should be about Tourists, or if we are talking Indian here, it should be about the travelling Indian, well close enough, Pravasi Divas is about the migrant Indian, who has either given up or on the verge of giving up his/her Indian Citizenship. Oh! he/she…