Tag: Science
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The Fire That Burns Some
– The mother of my great grandfather had come riding on the arrow of fire that cleared the wilderness. She was spotted by the son of a local tribal king and they both got married and together sowed the first seeds of this village. – Is this true? – Yes, it’s true. The local PWD…
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Menaka ( मेनका )
Today, when I sit idle for days without reading, writing or working, I am reminded of the time when I had time in my hands and I did not want to have them. Having time in your hand, I believed, showed that you were not doing justice to the purposes for which you have been…
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Sunset – Part 1
“Father, is there actually a God?” “Everything’s there until its absence is proven.” My father never liked to be called Dad, Daddy, Papa, or any thing of that sort. He insisted that I call him Father because he liked the sound of it – Faa-dar. “There are even aliens flying between the two of us,…
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A Strand of Hair
“Humans are incapable of accepting the reality even if they know it.” It was another hot November night and we were having a conversation about things which frankly were of no interest to me. It had been one hour since we had been talking and I had almost given up on deciphering her cryptic intellectual…
Shishir Chaudhary 