Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

During my school years, we were taught to read and write three languages: Urdu, Persian, and Arabic. Since the alphabets and scripts of the three languages were similar (not the same), it was easy to learn to write them. Poor as we were, we used to practice writing on a wooden plank, which was coated… Read more

I don’t know politics but I know the namesOf those in power, and can repeat them likeDays of week, or names of months, beginning with Nehru.I am Indian, very brown, born in Malabar,I speak three languages, write inTwo, dream in one.Don’t write in English, they said, English isNot your mother-tongue. Why not leaveMe alone, critics,… Read more