write2kill RSS feed write2kill Twitter feed write2kill on Facebook
write2kill.in
 
writekill.in Newsletter
Enter your email address:
writekill Twitter feed
 

The light of nothingness

There’s no light wherever
No tunnel for is this
A nightmare of darkness all
The mind sick of passion ‘o love
Is the morrow morn
To be fathomless as
This night of a travesty.

Conditioned as they were
The ups to this nocturnia
But blind they have
Decomposed into this day
For the foresightedness
Hath nothing to perceive
Beyond which exists, just nothingness.

[ First published: September 16, 2008   Last updated: September 16, 2008 ]
Random articles

The BlackBerry, the elite, and a question of civil liberties

The BlackBerry, the elite, and a question of civil liberties
The Indian elite is known for many things good, bad and ugly, its ostrich syndrome being one. Any ill that does not plague it, simply does not exist. A liberalised socio-economic regime gives it all the privileges that it barefacedly demands; civil liberties always go to hell and stay there. So when civil liberties activists raised the alarm after the Indian laws governing cyberspace and online activities came into force, no one took any cognizance of them. Street dogs after all are wont to bark. At every one, at everything. India Inc was gung ho about development, never mind what that means, and the media was dutifully reflecting this misplaced euphoria. Everyone used the Internet, the Internet made money for everyone, this way and that. Till one fine day. The BlackBerry, the elite, and a question of civil liberties

Stripping bare the riot masterminds

Stripping bare the riot masterminds
Ten years is a numerically compulsive occasion for retrospection. Both for Javed, Teesta and their team, and for those well-wishers like us who have seen them wage a lonely battle since 1993. The introspection bit has to be done by the rest. Stripping bare the riot masterminds