Miscellaneous
Game of the Year
2012 is coming to a close and gaming has had a very good year. Whether you were playing bad piggies on your iPhone or fragging noobs in HALO 4, it reminded us that the games are getting better and the […]
Articles by Vishaal Bhat
Miscellaneous
Are ‘us’ and ‘them’ really so different?
“But a mouth is always muzzled by the food it eats to live.” – Martin Carter, Poems of Succession. I am muzzled. Not that I cannot talk, but I am unable to say the things that I want to say […]
Miscellaneous
The Pot and the Kettle: A Finger-Pointing excercise in futitlity
Everywhere in the country, the words “politicians” and “corruption” are used in the same breath as though they were synonyms. In some cases and in some places, once a person enters the political arena he or she is perceived, automatically, […]
Miscellaneous
My New World – A Short Story – Concluding Part
“Rastogi!” A loud demanding shout echoed in my ears like the rumbling “atom bomb” on the night of Diwali in the park. My thoughts came to a closing halt. It was back to reality. “ This isn’t a vacation. How […]
Art and Culture
My New World – A Short Story – Part Five
[Continued from My New World–A Short Story–Part Four] That day was a great one. I had my first swimming lesson, made a century, and started to bake a leather belt. Everyone was baffled. Again, I was a mystery. Only two […]