Eternity, Part 2
For Nadine …And suddenly, just like that, I wanted to reread Love in the Time of Cholera. I wanted my soul to be caressed again…
For Nadine …And suddenly, just like that, I wanted to reread Love in the Time of Cholera. I wanted my soul to be caressed again…
A green ocean An awareness adrift on its waves, a disciple of silence, Dissolving At nightfall — the stars are reflected on the inky blackness of…
Sexuality is the fire; love and eroticism are the two flames emanating from that fire. This is the theme of Octavio Paz’s last book The Double…
This article was written when I was 16 years old and published in the popular astronomy journal “Akash Totthya.” They say it all began with Mary…
What I found interesting and beautiful was that Kundera’s defence of Rushdie’s controversial novel wasn’t based on freedom of expression, instead, it was based on the art of the novel.
My father would have been 87 today. Even in illness, after suffering a stroke and eventual dementia, he was intellectually curious. The day after he suffered…
For E. [This was published in Carved Voices and is based on an earlier essay of mine.] Late one evening, as I waited for her outside…
More time is not more eternity. — Juan Ramón Jiménez What if someone or something exists only for a very short interval of time? Would you…
Hindus and Muslims by Kazi Nazrul Islam Translated by Tibra Ali for AlalODulal.org One day I was discussing the Hindu-Muslim problem with GurudevRabindranath. Gurudev said: Look, you…
I once met a girl at a cafe who gave me her phone number. I looked her up on the internet and learned that she had studied…