Category: the mortal world

A Promise Of Eternity

A Promise Of Eternity

By Aishwarya Verma Sitting in the graveyard, she thinks:Why is it it that leaving all the places behind this is the only place that gives solace, maybe because she likes spending time with the forgotten. We mortals, we love people and we do everything in our power to be with them, then how is it …

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life says hello! — a poem

life says hello! — a poem

by pravin singhmar how late does it come, wisdom, and slowly too? or, does it? whereas, leaving us all flabbergasted, overwhelmed and dumbfounded with whacks on our heads, life says hello! every time you feel that you have befriended life, the bitch comes out of nowhere to bite you right in the butt. and, this …

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“Your future is not set in stone”: The Unwinding of the Miracle

“Your future is not set in stone”: The Unwinding of the Miracle

“The truth being that I have cancer and the inevitability being that I will eventually die from that cancer.” The Unwinding Of The Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death and Everything That Comes After is a memoir of Julie Yip-Williams a Chinese American born partially blind diagnosed with colon cancer in her late 30s and …

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Dystopia: Future or Present?

Dystopia: Future or Present?

Imagine a society in a mess. Some would argue that mess is right here in the present times. Then picture a further decayed form of the present society. That is dystopia. Devoid of a set definition, dystopia is a future state or society in which man is suffering from excessive technological interference, autocratic governments, totalitarian …

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unending void — a poem

unending void — a poem

by pravin singhmar this unending void within nothing fills it it lacks connection there is a sordid numbness that stays and travels along that doesn’t allow me to breathe fully i attempt to fill this lacuna with everyday talks with the voice from the radio with the irrelevant conversations with the absent invisible human images …

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Existentialism as an Optimistic Idea

Existentialism as an Optimistic Idea

The philosophy of existentialism is usually considered as one attached with negative notions of angst, gloom, hopelessness and despair. Camus’ The Outsider and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis present an indifferent world. The protagonists appear to have embodied the very absurdity that surrounds them. But it’s merely one way of looking at the existential philosophy, a view …

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