Kangleimaichou

Keep it close, the mind says Let it go, the bewitched heart suggests If the truth be told; better keep it unsaid One has known beauty One has been kept in spell Also learned bewitchment  The mind is at odd with heart But the heart says, it is heavy Heavy to move around with it Yet it admits, it’s a beautiful weight

Once I hoped Once I relearned to hope Hoped to undo the past I was not looking I was not seeking  I wanted to forget  A chapter  The chapter of failures  The failures I had known The failures that ruled senses  There was none Who could help The wounded me In weeks I was a new person In months I was a stronger person In months I could shake off  The Chapter And in months I knew her scent And in months I lived in her smiles Soon it was her  Soon all was new The rain was new The splatters transformed Autumn ’ s hu...

I wouldn’t be surprised when Orwell’s 1984 is banned, considering the fact that the nation is now run by a Hinduvta government, and its performance is evaluated by the so-called intelligentsia who Arnab Goswami easily manipulates in his Times Now’s courtroom. I am reminded of the time when a Kerala consumer court had issued an arrest warrant against RIL’s god  and the editor there went ballistic for doing the forbidden of touching his master’s pal. We were chided, and we swallowed it and went home telling ourselves we were working for a newspaper which is considered to represent the conscience of the nation. This is one reason why I suggest you sit with someone who has been involved in editorial decision-making to find out what’s wrong with India, the democracy with too many unspoken rules and secrets. With regards to ‘my pals’, this platform is an open one, and I don’t discuss family and seek no bonhomie with anyone, and I don’t do convenient friendship, and thus my relation wit...