I write songs, poems and short stories. Both in Hindi and English. We have posted about fifty songs in English sung by my friend Henry Pajak the well known Australian composer and singer. On the henry Pajak you tube channel. I won’t know if some of you write songs and would like to collaborate with […]
Author Archives: Abhilaaj
The weeds, the thorns, the trash bins.
We love flowers, we love butterflies, we love singing birds in our gardens. But we ignore the thorns on the rose plants on the multiple colored bouginvillea vines. Don’t they have a part to play? Are they not hungry of your love and admiration? Try to Pat the thorns one day and see that the […]
Courtsey
Does it cost ? No, it doesn’t. Yet many of us lack it. Do we lose anything if we said hello to an elderly man or woman, a sad looking kid or for that matter even to a lonesome stray animal? We don’t, but how many of us do it? Does it matter if the […]
Loneliness or Solitude
What is the difference between solitude and loneliness? If you google, you would get the following reply. ”Here’s a great quote by Hannah Arendt about the difference between solitude and loneliness: “The lonely man finds himself surrounded by others with whom he cannot establish contact or to whose hostility he is exposed.” The solitary man, […]
Do you have more female friends than male or vice versa?
Many of us may have. Tell me why, if so? Why are friends of opposite sex more sought out even by those who are not single? A male here asked me off late, ”Are you a gay?” When I addressed him as Dearest. I answered him,”I use the same endearment for the God.” And he […]
”Where’s Chetak?”
Translated from Hindi – posted originally at allpoetry.com/Abhilaaj. ‘’The audience respects me, they love my dance, my voice.’’ ‘’I feel satisfied, elated whenever I dance in the courtroom,’’ She said to her Drum- player. ”I wish I danced all my life and the audience kept on clapping forever.” ‘’That the festivities never came to an […]
Are Rabbits Rodents?
No, they are not, as many of you may perhaps have thought. Rabbits, truly speaking are members of the family called ” Leporidae.” Had this question been asked a century ago the reply would have been positive indeed. The zoologists then classified Rabbit and other lagomorphs within the order named Rodentia ( or rodents), which […]
MCG- The Exuberant Woman with a Dulcet Voice.
She met me a few years ago on a friendly Pen pal site just like ours in a way- not a dating site I mean. Not a senior citizens’ exclusive site though. She was an Indian. She had used the name ”Bubbly” on the site while I used the name ”The Indian Poet.” She later […]
Happy Balcony
There are names and names- real names, pen- names, profile names. Isn’t it ironical- we can not select neither our parents nor our own names. Some names are unique. As a writer I did pick up a pen name or Nom De Plume. If I were okay with my real name maybe I would have […]
On This Christmas Day
On this Christmas day let those not miss the Jesus Christ who have to miss their food at times and miss the Sun-ray. Every day they pray at His altar, staring empty sacs, empty jar. On this Christmas night again they shall keep their doors open, ajar. Why not act as Santa this Christmas, why […]
