God’s Last Class

God steps into the classroom for the last class of the semester and walks quietly to the blackboard. The TA, Gabe, hands him a piece

Why I Believe in Re-birth

How can I believe that for the good or evil that a human being does in a life-span of a mere 80 years is the

Women in the Hospitality Business

There were times when persons I knew were either too ‘embarrassed’ to acknowledge my presence or too awkward to say niceties to me because conditioning

Celebrating the Khalsa

On Vaisakhi Day, Guru Gobind Singh ji stood before the Sikh congregation and requested the ultimate sacrifice of his disciples. Five Sikhs volunteered to lay

Opinionated Jaahilism

If society were a person, it would be an obese one. Just like all the useful flesh, muscles and tissues are in a small amount

Hidden Desires

Oh, chaste wither away! And set her lust free--
held incarcerated, long ago a romance ceased to be
to whisper a hymn

VIP

A Thousand Cuts

Female genital mutilation is actually on the rise, as those who practice it, bring it with them as they make their Diasporic journeys to other

When Jihad Becomes Terrorism.

Jihad would thus come to be seen as the lesser of two evils. Its ultimate goal would be to wipe out tyranny, to restore justice

The 'Ikes of March

When it was finally our turn to be interviewed we were so drained by the wait it took us several seconds to vocalize our answers

The Singing Box

Bodies in black, swaying,
Like wild swans,
Floating on diverging ripples,
Fingers meditating

Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Criticism

Structuralism influenced every discipline of knowledge. The intellectuals started giving structures for everything : culture, language, mathematics and psychology and even the mind and consciousness

Neglected Victims

Paedophiles Duncan Grant and Alan Waters have been convicted to six years rigorous imprisonment. The critical question that needs to be looked at first is

When Spring Arrives - Celebrating Navroz

It is believed by some that it was the day of Navroz when Hazrat Adam was bestowed with the soul. It was the day of

Tribute to Mother

From that corner of your heart where motherhood
Lay rooted and from those cracks that were formed
Due to suppressed desire burst a fount of fury

The Holy Falooda

Globalization may have its defenders – but to see our contemporary culture turned into an amalgam of the borrowed and the stolen, lacking context or