In your laurel crown

There is a wild flower in you.Wherever you look you find itLike the bright little spots,When you look up in the skyThere is always a wild flower in you. In all your imaginations and dreamsLike a quirky little child,Carefree and blissful,Brimming with life.There is a wild flower in you. In its beauty and graceI lay...

Lost in the hierarchy of lies

Feeling lostIn the hierarchy of liesI lay awake on shallow landIn hopes and dreams of newer lightI saw a corpse, dead and alive. With empty shells of consciousnessI looked above at the burning skyStanding alone in this empty landI saw my dreamsAblaze and bright. Never too soon,I wished again,I fall amazed by glitter. Never too...

I Seek Solace

Everything seems bogus and putridLike an insane hopeless dreamDemented and lost I hop forwardTo somewhere unknown and deep Torn apart and torn awayI wish to get some sleep.To blend away in stranger dreamsI wish to get some sleep. Somewhere in my lonely heartI once had saved a dreamA portrait of a skinny manWalking through defeat...

Are we sharing more?

With the proliferation of social media and other digital media platforms, the idea of what we understand as sharing of information has undergone a radical revolution. In a pre-internet era, when communication was a strenuous activity the idea of sharing was much less emphasized. With the internet revolution, and now COVID, the whole concept of...

Libraries in a connected world

With the world becoming more and more connected everyday our libraries are also seeming to get along with it without much ado. From enriching the development of local communities to enabling the prosperity of research communities libraries have played a key role in building a knowledge society in this world from early on. Even today...

Finding escape is a sin

Finding escape is a sinTo hands of reality that crushes your soulTo the arms that lend you a friendly holdSay no. ThenAll that would be leftIs you.Scarred yet not smearedTorn yet not torturedBroke yet not boughtAll that would be leftIs you. ThenStripped from pain,Hurt and sorrow,You walk away.From empty lands,That has no grassYou walk away....

Swirling into the dark

Swirling down into the dark, I thought I saw some stars. It grew on me the endless pit, Deep and dark and bright. More and more it pulled me down, I saw up close the bands and rings. More and more I swirled around, I left my soul and song. Lost in dark dungeons deep...

Is technology killing libraries today?

Libraries, and the society that has enriched it till today, have been upgraded by technology to such an extent that it can function too independently with less manual support. This along with the continuous decrease in the dependence of the general public on libraries as a knowledge hub leads to question 'whether more technology is...

Within the Matrix of reality

How selfish is reality? I guess one can never delve into such depths. We are always bound and limited by our questions. So much so little are we realising that every day every minute our lives are gripping out of our hands, into a chasm of chaos and uncertainty which never leaves any trace of...

In Darkness

I am the God and the Devil I praise,For I feast everyday on leisure and pain.In an endless cycle of lust and guilt,My gutless heart tears ever apart.Never I saw my end so soon,I wish it grabbed me on new moon.In depths of darkness that I creep,So my death shall come to me unseen.If God...

God, Devil, and Man

Devil shows you everything and God shows you the Devil,But Man wants to be God and have everything he owns.Devil wants Man to have everything he wants.God wants Man to know Devil has plans.Devil helps Man.God forgives Man.Man regrets.Devil forgives Man.Man forgets God.Devil forsakes man.Man builds hell.God regrets.Devil forgets.Man distrusts,Both Devil and God.In death and...

The Girl in the Red Dress

It was during winter I realised that I had been so delusional about what‘s been going around in my life. Everything then suddenly started to become clear as I later found that she was just a part of my delusion. It all started when I took up the work at the cafeteria near my college...

Away with Hemingway

When you are in a mood to take a walk alone with your mind I truly recommend to you the books written by Hemingway, cause he has such a simple way of writing that you can’t resist reading. For me the whole reading experience of Hemingway is a kind of fishing experience, from the fish’s...

Why I Read

When  I seek for company, I look for pleasure When I seek for pleasure, I look for knowledge When I seek for knowledge, I look for culture When I seek for culture, I look for words When I seek for words, I look for wisdom When I  seek for wisdom, I look for truth  ...

I am free and that’s why I’m lost

I move around day-by-day Without a worry in sight I wish my days do move away As a calm and wondrous sight For all I am and I can be I sift so free and light As for all you know, is what you see A bird so lost in plight Day-by-day-by-day-by-day Far and far...