perceptions | perceptions
Jan.23.2013
Why do we protect the freedom of literature and the arts and deny the same to others, even if they might use a similar creative medium or idiom?
Salman Rushdie said in an interview:
“I really worry about how it’s become so easy to attack books, movies, paintings, works of scholarship there...
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Jan.15.2013
Watching the Golden Globes and…ahem…”Quirky” People interact with each other on network television during this year’s show was pretty fun for me, and I’ll tell you why.
I’m won’t mince words, because, well… I don’t do that. It was fun catching some of the show on Sunday. I watched as Jodi...
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Dec.27.2012
Reams spin untold stories on untouched sheets quivering before eyes zooming in, zooming out images of magnified clouds colonising the sky turning into cottonwool swabs soaked in blood unseen wounds unfelt pain
Tree branches cover streets birds sing in sewers cars rush past...
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Dec.19.2012
Soooo...it's not even noon yet in my little corner of the world and I've already had my well-that's-a-first moment for the day. A complete stranger called me a "scumbag."
My unique experience began with me driving to the store this morning. As I was merging into the turning lane...
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Dec.07.2012
I am:A daughter, A mother, A friend, An enemy, A lover, A hater, A temptress, A prude, A pacifist, An antagonizer, A mediator, A fighter,A rule maker, A rule breaker, A follower, A leader, A comedian, A sour puss, A rebel,A conformist,A loud mouth, A listener with no voice, A teacher, A student, A...
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Nov.03.2012
The Chinese man who sued his wife for being 'ugly' and won the case can be seen as a study beyond beauty.
Jian Feng did not know about the lack of pulchritude in his wife. When she delivered an “incredibly ugly” baby, he figured out that this is what she looked like. She had, in fact, undergone...
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Sep.26.2012
Are you this or are you that?
This and that. These and those. Multiple personalities? No. Just a few dimensions to one.
The query is often posed when I swing from one ‘mood’ to another/others. As a writer, it is important to have these mood swings. In fact, I am promiscuous with my writings. ‘...
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Sep.22.2012
the moment left
untouched
like a blink
unseen
by the eye
paintings
in the air
limbless percussionists
mute singers
deaf listeners
footprints
on froth
bodies clasped
unclasped
in-visible
fantasies
food on plate
a tableau
worship
candle burns
untouched
by flame
~FV
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Image: Rudimentary...
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Jul.08.2012
Balconies have a funny way of looking like life. The openness that allows you to look at the sky, but not escape to it. We are not birds, but our feathers are often ruffled. And then sitting in the half-open, like a person just woken up from sleep, the balcony brings in invigorating tea. It is hot...
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Jun.07.2012
He is the contradiction of his own statement. Salman Rushdie at the Hay Festival in Wales is still "joking" about a two-decade-old fatwa. Yet, he maintains:
"The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last. It's the people who...
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