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Listed: Jan 31, 2012
Personal Concerns ― The plot of the second novel by Hogashimo revolves around the investigation of a ‘murder by poisoning’ case of Yoshitaka, a reasonably rich Japanese man. Married to the pretty woman that Ayane is, Yoshitaka is in an extramarital...
Tags: Mind, Book Reviews, Books, Japan, Literature, Reviews
Personal Concerns ― 4 weeks 4 days ago
Personal Concerns ― The blue of my jeans and the red of my shirt do not talk to each other. Forced to temporarily inhabit the residence that is my body I see that they squirm and tease each other all the time. They lay claims to inheriting my liking of colors as I am...
Tags: Mind, Love, Opinion, Personal, Relationships
Personal Concerns ― 4 weeks 6 days ago
Personal Concerns ― Devdutt Pattanaik is currently the Chief Belief Officer at the Future Group. His website introduces him as an author, speaker, illustrator and a mythologist which to me sounds like the coming together of an extremely interesting set of ...
Tags: Mind, Book Review, Books, India, Management, Philosophy
Personal Concerns ― 7 weeks 2 days ago
Personal Concerns ― The day comes to a halt for us. I part with the oars held weakly in my hands. As distance from you grows with the sleek wooden sticks wading across the clear, turbulent mass of water, eyes well up with sights of nothingness and bleak. The stream...
Tags: Heart, Life, Love, Personal, Poetry, Romance
Personal Concerns ― 7 weeks 5 days ago
Personal Concerns ― It is 11 a.m. Woke up to a pale sunny morning which was to soon lose its innocence to the maturity and the haughtiness of the noon. What sounded like a marriage procession in the street (at this time of the year??) was the prominent trigger to the...
Tags: Heart, Delhi, Everyday Life, Karl Marx, Personal, Politically Incorrect
Personal Concerns ― 12 weeks ago
Personal Concerns ― I think of cinema and of images that move and of those which don’t. Thinking of a torn sari clad woman at the hearth under the sky. Blowing her life into the fire that refuses to quickly send the chapatis in the daughter’s plate lying ...
Tags: Heart, Art, Cinema, India, Play, Poetry
Personal Concerns ― In the cloud of my rain was nectar attenuated it was laden with tar that had stiffened in the heat Stirring vigorously was the spoon and a cluttering sound it made and the rain fell drop by drop quenching the river When it was sunny the honey ...
Tags: Heart, Art, Life, Poems, Poetry
Personal Concerns ― 14 weeks ago
Personal Concerns ― For me Gasha turned out to be a curious sound. Pronounced as Gaa-Sh-Aa it is the name of the latest play produced by the Bangalore based theater group Indian Ensemble. As a nominated entry under several categories (including Best Play and Best...
Tags: Mind, Uncategorized, Art, Bangalore, Delhi, Drama
Personal Concerns ― 15 weeks ago
Personal Concerns ― With A Potter man’s hands And with a Watch repairer’s eyes I wish to hold and see With A Professor’s pen And with a Doctor’s Needle I wish to write and pinch With A Manual Scavenger’s Head And with a Banker’s Calculator I wish to...
Tags: Heart, India, Life, Love, Poetry, Sociology
Personal Concerns ― 26 weeks ago
Personal Concerns ― ‘Leave me alone’ she said with a smile Thinking of a trip to the Amazon and the Nile. Away he walked in some relief Made his way to the coral reef. She rode on boats of waves and rains He walked alone in mounts and plains. Further as ...
Tags: Mind, Anthropology, Art, Emotions, Intelligentsia, Knowledge
Personal Concerns ― (For the sixth post in this series, for which I have interviewed people I am close to, I emailed Uma Shankar Pandey a set of questions. His responses have been reproduced here. I hope that you would like the idea and enjoy the conversation. The...
Tags: Mind, Arts, Friends, Ganges, India, Interviews
Personal Concerns ― Thank heavens! Infatuations last but hours and minutes. God forbid the outcomes this churning of the being would have had if it were to extend into days of my life that are to follow? This ambience arrests the mind and soul, imprisons it for a ...
Tags: Heart, Writing, Love, Poetry, Personal
Personal Concerns ― 35 weeks ago
Currently around a half of organizations ranging in size from SMEs to large multinationals ...
∙ One of the few things I consider when buying a frock is the print. Growing up, I ...
My first thought when I saw the topic for this weeks Photo Challenge: Curves was the ...