Tag: Samsara

‘Summer Wars’ tells of how virtual reality as a ‘Second Life’ spills over to reality, till it becomes indispensable to…

From ‘Essex County’ by Jeff Lemire, Annie the nurse says, ‘I lost a patient today… Humph!… I know what you’d…

Yah: I’m apolitical. Jat: More like apathetic. Yah: Apathetic to politics… yes! Jat: How so? Yah: Because politics has too…

A Tit for a Tat (66) Tit: I don’t have enough strength or patience! Tat: Why not train your strength…

There are 25 Word files to edit. There are 8 emails to reply. There are 2 PDF files to read….

TV drama serials (or soap operas), creative as they can be in their story arcs, are at times predictable –…

A Tit for a Tat (44) Tit: Why do you do the things you do, that others might misunderstand as…

If there is a single film, that I have seen, that illustrates Samsara the most graphically, it would be Baraka….

It is time for another more or less bi-weekly dosage of ‘Depeche Dharma’, when I interpret Depeche Mode’s songs with…

She has tendered her resignation. She has no regrets. ‘Why not leave at a higher note?’ I asked. ‘Why wait…

< Dust of the X-Men An SMS conversation with a friend: Sophie: Monday… Arghhh… Shi’an: How about this… Monday might…

The following dialogue (from the movie ‘The Promotion’) took place when a couple hears a surreal semi-muted conversation about banjo-playing…

For supper last night, I reheated a prepacked naan using a microwave oven. To my shock, when it was ready,…

This life, this suffering, this Samsara, is nothing but a springboard to Pureland. Pureland is nothing but a springboard to…

On my way to the bus-stop just outside my work-place, I saw a distant familiar figure hobbling on the pavement….

The company changed the clocking machine recently. It is now so easy to clock in and out that she even…

From the chorus of ‘Only When I Lose Myself’ by Depeche Mode: ‘It’s only when I lose myself in someone…

Haunted by ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ is about a fickle guy, who is so scrooge-ly with…

In ‘Timbuktu’ by Paul Auster (illustrated by Julia Goschke for an abridged graphic novel), the author explores human homelessness via…

Whenever I got bumped into by unmindful and unapologetic pedestrians in the past, the natural tendency was to give rise…