How to end a story about a war – Lessons from World War Z
So I saw World War Z a few days ago. It turned out to be a better story than I’d anticipated. I expected it to be either too soft or too macho, but it struck the right balance. After I finished the...
View ArticleThe Death of the Author
there is, however, someone who understands each word in its duplicity and who, in addition, hears the very deafness of the characters speaking in front of him-this someone being precisely the reader....
View ArticleShort Story: The Author
On a quiet night, in a quiet neighborhood, twenty quiet police officers quietly broke into a quiet man’s quiet house, arrested him and quietly took him away. When he woke up, he was alone in a large,...
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The Zen of Zen
I have tried, many, many times, to read books on self-help, management, zen and “How to Keep on Writing” topics. But except for the wisdom I found in the stories in books like Shiv Khera’s ‘You Can...
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The Path of the Creative person
I was talking to my friend Rahul[ADN|Twitter|Facebook] about an idea I had about ‘ideas’ and how I would represent visually the need to protect our precious idea from all the negative people around us...
View ArticleTech Bloggers should sell their articles
tl;dr – Tech bloggers should sell articles to News companies, much like Reuters and AP have done in the past. GigaOm Pro is an interesting service. While most of the tech blogging industry is...
View ArticlePablo Picasso – Words To Live By | waldina
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” via Pablo Picasso – Words To Live By | waldina. Excellent words. Perhaps this is why I write. When daily life becomes too much,...
View ArticleChildhood
In a sea of faces walks a child, his mind swimming in a sea of books. He seems lost in the reverie that some call the Schoolyard. He looks at the children, smiling, playing, happy. He is distant, but...
View ArticleSabji Acchi bani hai – Part 1
Setting: A typical IT company office in India. 3 cubicles (cutouts) can be seen, Stage center back. Three men are sitting with backs facing the audience. They appear to be working. They are – Sumit in...
View ArticleSabji Acchi Bani Hai – Part 2
Scene 2 (Rahul goes home to his wife. Setting: Home, with a few chairs. The IT office is in the background, covered by only a thin veil, as if to depict that life always revolves around the office.)...
View ArticleThe Cake Economy
I looked over the class. Some were bored, some where mentally absent and a few of the front row people were busy taking notes. This had been a boring class, covering financial systems and economies....
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His Last Laugh
Khushwant Singh, noted Indian author and journalist, died last to last week. I’ve been meaning to write about it, but my memory of him is like a warm, if foggy feeling and I didn’t want to put it to...
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Notes for Week 19 of 2014
The last time I did this, it was week 2 of 2014. But here we are again, with a bunch of nice links to share with you nice folks. Enjoy! Internet - Which is the most popular IP among network...
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