I have thought often how it was possible that scores of German soldiers – people, all of them – could take such an active part in mass killings and torture of the Holocaust. It might be that some power was driving the war for its own political reasons, but how could such a thing be …
Month: August 2009
Destiny
Perhaps I have travelled here The entire length of the hall From genesis to this moment here To see a writing on a wall I know not what has driven me so Nobody is aware I know not who has lain the paths Lying unseen everywhere Perhaps the writer of that wall Was …
Landmarks of Kolkata
I have been touring a few spots of central Kolkata recently, and I have had the opportunity to note certain characteristics in some of them. I would like to take you through these. I am hopeful that you won’t get this information presented in just such a way anywhere else. The places that we shall …
Moan
Something hard is pressing down on me. Part of it is myself, pushing me every moment, to make every moment useful, productive, to not become a time-wasting degenerate. It’s getting me down because I am going to waste this evening. But the most part is not that. It’s something counter, in a vague sort of …
One Life 