Why's it that we feel secure - and, sometimes even happy - in a stranger's silent company? On board a train or a flight, for instance! And, just the opposite in someone else's? Vibes. They're no figments of imagination and can't - even on scientific grounds - be brushed aside as mere hallucination. These chemosignals... Continue Reading →

Be watchful of what you do. Be mindful of what you think. For, there's someone watching you from above, tracking all your actions and thoughts. Sounds so familiar! But, many a time, such alerts fail to get their traction on the human psyche, 'cause, no one is able to construct a mathematical sequence between people's... Continue Reading →

BEINGS treated as OBJECTS is an age-old practice. No surprises there. Bulls and donkeys. Seen as objects that help transport people and things. Cows. Seen as objects that produce milk. Women. Seen as objects that provide carnal pleasure. How about OBJECTS then? Cars. Air-conditioners. Motorcycles. Mobiles. Computers. Artificial Intelligence. How do we expect them to... Continue Reading →

Certain professions gift us with decent standards of morality. They help us feel sublimely fulfilled - in the eyes of God. Wedding photography / videography, for instance. It's no crime... doesn't defraud anyone... doesn't belittle anyone. Instead, it keeps its subjects quite happy. If handled well, that is. But, life is hardly as ideal. It... Continue Reading →

Turn around and look 40,000 years into the past. You see a group of strange, upright ape-like creatures roaming around on the surface of the earth with a brain that was an off-shoot of a blind and unguided evolution. Very primitive in their anatomical and mental make-up, these Homo sapiens could absorb only those details... Continue Reading →

It's like playing a role in a Hollywood film. Walk into any public arena. Say, a grocery store. There's this numbing feel that something potentially lethal, dangerously real and spookingly invisible is stalking us while we walk down the aisles. Unnecessary hallucination? For once NO! The broadcast media screaming in alarm alerting us of the... Continue Reading →

'Being compulsively positive' is a special state of mind... doesn't happen just like that. Its birth spot is chaos. And, its thriving arena is tribulation.Life just full of fun and frolic? Ha! How boring! Everything is so sweet. Consistently and saturatingly. No undulations. No ups and downs. No roller-coaster. And, no thrill.So? Go looking for... Continue Reading →

Delusion! What a tricky state of mind to be in... being made to believe what is not! Take the movie 1917 for instance. Its cinematography ruthlessly unleashes this 'state' on our unbelieving senses. We do know that the stuff we are seeing just can't happen. Yet, we just can't not believe what's dramatically unfolding right... Continue Reading →

I heartily thank Team NE8x for encouraging me with the NE8x Litfest 2019 AUTHOR OF THE YEAR award for THE ASTRAL SURGE and also honoring me with these wonderfully designed mementos and certificates. I take it that, as a debutant author, I should place my respects and regards for the initiatives NE8x is taking to recognize... Continue Reading →

All of us come into this world with this 'de-facto' state of not being painted with any religious shade.No child, for instance, identifies themself as a flag-bearer of any religious mission.But, as we go along, we start bracketing ourselves into a particular religious thought process. And, eventually, we imbibe it as part of our personality... Continue Reading →