Eashwer Dass

An avatar of grapes Grapes, by itself, are fruit fit for a sage or fermented to an exotic beverage, a wine maturing with age. Whichever be its derivative, the fact remains that, it will still be just grape. A Good Question   The plan on how to retire and what to do with your time after retirement is never quite on anyone’s mind. If you are still employed or actively engaged in earning a living just ask yourself this-what are you going to do when you stop working?  People strive only to attain financial security for their grand retirement, without having any real plans on what to do when they arrive at it. What just exactly is retirement?   We shape our destiny   In our journey from adulthood to the unknown future, there are several phases we pass through. But one thing for certain is that, whether we move forward or stand still, it is definitely not due to the design of destiny. Instead, it is an outcome that is either inspired by our...

Good reads are articles written, through a partnership of great people, memorable events, both good and bad, but most importantly, it is the work of great writers that inspire us to tell our stories after reading theirs’. Every article or story is, in essence, someone else‘s work with renewed enthusiasm. Without being any exception to this, my objectives are to write and exhibit the irony in the habits of man, which makes him peculiar and vulnerable when we compare all the different hats he wears.  E D.

Karpal  Singh   i s  no more! A sad day has dawned onto a country that is in its midst of going through a struggle to make critical corrections to transform itself into a first world democratic class nation.  The “TIGER OF JELUTONG” a title bestowed upon by his constituents for his  fervour  to uphold the law and their constitutional rights voiced by his iconic roar. A voice demanding for changes that is a sounding board very much in need to awaken this country. This voice along with its possessor has been crushed to silence in a gruesome road mishap that has ended his life, aspirations and his quest to complete his mission.  A COG WHEEL HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE NATION’S MACHINERY FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE … will  the machinery slow down and come to a grinding halt? Or will it be a new beginning to the continuation of this struggle by more inspired and equally fierce roars?  Yes, it is indeed a painful ...

I am like some, who is trying to crawl out of the dark into the light, but am caught in the transit of gray areas the longest, pondering whether to crawl back to where I came from or soldier on patiently.

Two African Women NOT TRUE This is an awesome portrait of two beautiful women on the cover page of an elite fashion magazine featuring the untapped beauty of the African continent and her people, both the women are highly acclaimed professional models, bathed in the finest branded perfume, masked in branded makeup, wearing a fine collection of branded non precious contemporary jewellery and cloaked in trendy summer wear.  TRUTH These two African women woke up this morning and promised that they would live life to its fullest as they do every day, as simply as they breathe the crisp Ethiopian air. BEAUTIFUL Dressed in their pleasant hand woven garb and donning local handcrafted  colourful  adornments wrapped around limbs and neck they set off to catch a bus into their local village town. EDit . Photo:  Shobha Gopinath

A Cliché as said in the dictionary means, an expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty. A cliché may also refer to actions and events which are predictable because of some previous events..... AWE IN CLICHES More than just most people will succumb to accommodate the idea of change with something that evolves constantly with time so much so that it tends to become a trend.  On the other hand people also accept certain routines to be almost sacred, although it does not seem logical to practice them, but it is customary and considered a norm. Take the matter of the iPhone as an example, the bizarre desire for the consumer to upgrade his device to a newer model, even before he can finish paying off for the current one after maxing his credit card or getting the hang of using all its functions to efficiently operate it, is something completely beyond my imagination. The queues in line to get their hands on one of these ...

     Queen’s Crater, Mt.  TangkubanPerahu  Indonesia       Be still, O my Queen, be still, for your  breathtaking  beauty lies only when you remain in eternal tranquillity, only then can I feast on your magnificence thru the mouth of my hungry lenses.  Be still, O  my Queen,  please be still, for all the king’s men and horses  cannot put together what you destroy when you dance in  restlessn ess,  invoking brush-less strokes of artistry,  and  the fiery  spews   of molten rock being your palette of paint, using  Kawah Ratu as your easel,  you  transform disaster  into  a landscape of ravishing scenic beauty... Then, with my burning passion and desire, I will be back once again to zoom in on you.‘’ EDit. Photography :  ShobhaGopinath  ...

The rule of thumb for packing when going on a short trip is to take a 10 squeeze toothpaste tube instead of a family size one.

To become a little wiser you have to sometimes be a miser.

How did God look at things when he created us and everything we see around us?  The design of everything created is so perfect, is this a copy of his world or is this his world?

Lust to not let go of what you have found in living and your refusal to surrender to death when not really knowing that probably more awaits you in the place where you are going after death.

Little necessities of frustration  I have gone to become quieter now, I rest my vocals resting on my laurels, screaming at the top of my voice, in totally mute mode and scribe soundless screams into epitaphs of dead dreams, all in pursuit without any loss in fidelity and as what it exactly means. ED.

Playing percussions in the kitchen: Drumming up excessive noise in the kitchen while cooking is the sound of an angry, reluctant and totally pissed off woman. ED.

If you really want to hurt someone you could stab them with the sharp end of your pen or you could use it to write the truth about them and then stab them with your pen, that will certainly do the trick. ED.

There are times when silence is a more  deafening applause than handmade.  ED.

The best source of comfort one can ever seem to have for the longest period of time in his life would be his mother. ED .

On Mother's day, I take the day off, for the only reason that  I  celebrate every day with her for all the remaining days in the year and call it life. ED

Touch her feet, protect her as you do deities in a shrine, for your mother is the avatar of all the Gods that your eyes can reveal and blessed are you if she still breathes. ED.

If I asked a question of which was the larger of the two, the human Mind or the Universe? Those who live in a world quantifying life by dimensions will say different from they who are able to compact and snug the latter into their minds. ED.

Knowledge and ego; is like light and shadow; the brighter it gets the dimmer is the shadow; the greater a knowledge you acquire, the lesser your ego.

Your first wake , a screaming bawl, a proof of life, bringing tears of joy to the people who heard you bundle in awake. What first came to mind when your eyes opened awake today? What did you think? What has happened and is happening to you till you seized your wake for the day, to sleep? What first came to mind when your eyes opened awake yesterday? What did you think? What happened to you till you went back to sleep again? And, what will first come to mind when you awake tomorrow? What would you think? What would happen till you go back to bed to dream once again? Your last sleep with no more wakes will for sure, rain  tears again from the people who will miss having you awake, knowing that you shall not awake anymore. Our life is like a sandwich of wakes , what we stuff in between wakes, must be choices made clearly , decisively and most importantly of a sound foundation.  ED.

07-07-2014 Today, I attended the party of Methu Shan, my four year old friend who celebrated his birthday at his Play School. It was a rich and rewarding experience to watch kids do their thing in a classroom, apart from their size they behave just like adults. My eyes became a camcorder recording every moment of the precious celebration, which in my thoughts should be made mandatory by every Government in every country, for every kid to celebrate their birthdays at least up to a certain age. From my arrival to the premises till the end of the event, the camera was rolling, recording it to mind which translated the entire event as something more than just a birthday party. It was a simultaneous recall of my own life at that age on celluloid in comparison to his live digital feed, running on two separate screens, fortunately both were in colour even though the our age gapped  a good fifty years apart but colour was already in by then. My friend had a twinkl...

6-7-14 Yesterday I attended a presentation to see ordinary drinking water being transformed into a life giving liquid to help heal the human body of ailments and thus preventing further diseases from occurring. This machine has apparently been around for almost four decades and is a Japanese invention. Dr William Howard Hay in 1933 was a New York Medical Doctor who published a revolutionary book titled A New Health Era, on Autotoxication or self-poisoning due to acidosis, the excess acid accumulation in the body which is said to be the cause of all diseases. This means pH imbalances in the human body caused by both ill diet and lifestyle can invite illnesses and eventually cancer. At the presentation, they demonstrated how this wonderful machine can help balance the pH of our body and prevent us from the harm of acidosis along with a myriad of other useful purposes that it was designed to perform.  So please, watch it on YouTube  www.kangendemo.com. ...