At school, I wasn’t the star pupil. My path began in the Royal Air Force, then moved to oil rigs and boardrooms, and even into computer science research. Poetry wasn’t on the radar. Yet...
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What Is There Left to Believe In?
That resistance lives in small, defiant acts.That truth can still burn through screens.That a poem might awaken a soul.That even in the darkest verse,a flicker of light waits to be seen.That history bends not...
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A New Global Anthology Explores the Many Frontlines of Conflict and the Fragile Longing for Peace
Kurukshetra: Between War and Peace"- A New Global Anthology Explores the Many Frontlines of Conflict and the Fragile Longing for Peace...
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Nobody Asked Me
I want gardens, not graves.Bread shared, not borders sealed. You talk of enemies I’ve never met,accuse, sanction, divide, repeat.But my neighbours have names, not allegiances.We speak with laughter, not warnings. Dr Graham R Smith...
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Porridge and I: A Child’s Window into Postcolonial India
In her memoir Porridge and I, Dr Roopali Sircar Gaur captures the delicate beauty and inner confusion of growing up in newly independent India. Seen through the eyes of a young girl, the story...
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Healing Minds, Telling Stories: Dr. Raj Velamoor on His Journey from Psychiatry to Fiction
From Hyderabad to Canada, from science to storytelling—Dr. Raj Velamoor’s debut novel The Reunion is a moving exploration of friendship, identity, and memory. In this candid interview, he reflects on his transition from psychiatry...
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From Mahabharata to Modern War Zones: A Literary Reckoning
A Global Anthology Reimagining Conflict, Justice, and Peace In a world torn apart by ideological polarization, armed conflict, and the growing erosion of empathy, Kurukshetra: Between War and Peace emerges as a powerful literary...
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Gentile, the Other
Contempt for the other flows in our blood, The ‘other’ remains untouched and unsacred, They need conversion, they need sanctification, Race, inhumanity, and contempt for the other dwell within our DNA. Uprooting the other...
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Once, we facilitated a Holocaust
Autocratic and authoritarian rule of the Roman Empire endures through us We inherited this autocratic structure from the Romans, From the Romans to the Church, to the Nazis and Fascists. No room for democracy,...
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The light in you
Darkness and not the light
Sadness and not the happiness
Sorrows and not joy
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