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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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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The Mist of Rememberence ..
Falling flower scene… It’s your rememberence .. Wetting eyelids ..unseen… It’s your rememberence .. Crying heart and soul…. It’s your rememberence.. Loneliness and dark within . It’s your remembrence .. Passing night .long so...
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The feather
A half-naked man, short in stature with a dark complexion, looking like just he’d just arrived after toiling hard in a paddy field, walked towards the church. His only attire was a hand- woven...
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