If I were to tell you that  what comes into the television antenna is not moving pictures, but mere electromagnetic waves in the microwave range, you might take my words for it. You see nothing entering the dish antenna atop your house – no pictures, no music. But you would scoff at my suggestion that … Continue reading The Sun is a black body – There’s no Light Outside Our Eyes

At 11:28 sharp on 4th December 1971, the civilian truck  bearing me in the garb of a truck cleaner stopped at the gate  barrier of an Air Force Station deep in the Eastern front. Twelve civilian trucks, carrying armaments  enough to devastate half a country hidden behind hay stacks,  that had kept safe distances between each … Continue reading WHY I REMEMBER CORPORAL HUSSEIN

Yesterday was a historic twenty-nine degrees that Nicole said was like furnace. I told her we called it good weather. Then it rained all night and this morning, and for me, it was winter in Kashmir.  “Take the river bus,” Nicole had told me. “Very few on board this time of the day and the … Continue reading Meeting a Yogic Guru in London

Note: Note: This paper was first published as one among my Reference Pages a few years ago to contradict the Argument of motion proposed by Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Friar (1225 – 1274). as one among his Cosmological arguments in proof of the existence of God. . Aquinas’s argument of Motion that needed a Prime … Continue reading Motion is perpetual; Staticity is a forced aberration

This October 2nd,  I passed the day attending an energetic and pious recitation of Lord Krishna’s legends of demon-killing  and his amorous ways with married women. No one appeared to reminisce the birth, 153 years ago,  of the man who gave his life for his avowed principle of  “Ishwar-Allah tero naam”  Nor of another man … Continue reading Generations To Come Would Scarce Believe…

When Jesus was speaking to the crowd, someone said aloud: “Look, Lord, Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to You.”  Visibly offended, Jesus replied, “Who is My mother, and who are My brothers?” Pointing to the crowd of followers, He said: “These are my Mothers and my brothers.” The crowd clapped their hands and chanted, “Praise the Lord. Son of … Continue reading Jesus & Matthew: The Part that Matthew Forgot

The country would soon get rid of Boris Johnson of unruly hairstyle and untidy verbosity. A few years ago, he said burqa-clad women reminded him of letter boxes. My answer on quora.com query : : Should Boris Johnson apologize for saying that burqa-lad women are like letterboxes? Rowan Atkinson, more ardently known as Mr. Bean, … Continue reading ONCE WHEN BORIS WAS RIGHT

Of course, my friend, Jesus loves you if you are from a particular brand of Christianity; Allah loves you if you are not Shiia or Ahmediya (or the other way round). Vishnu, Shiva, Krishna, Durga, Hanuman, Ganesh and Ayyappa love you jointly and severally depending on which part of the Country you hail from. Looking … Continue reading Of Course, My Friend, God Loves You

I wrote this Facebook in 2014. I find this just as relevant today. I brief thus all my foreigner friends who want to come to Make in India:.Mine is a great Country of superior culture. Please don't kiss in public, in alleys or aisles, roads or parks, in fact anywhere. If you feel the urge … Continue reading Briefing for MakeInIndia Visitors.

Old man, take my words calmly and in your stride You’d soon die and miss the spectacle of mankind’s suicide Whether You had lived in fame, or in abject shame No one would notice when you lie under the grime. .... Nobody would miss you or mourn longer than a week or two The tuneless … Continue reading A DESPERATE THOUGHT