नेता है जैसे कोई नयी तरकारीआज ताज़ी तो कल बासीहै ये चमचा सरकारीजो पटाता है भाषण देकर दुनिया सारीये है वोट मँगा भिखारी इसने बड़ी बड़ी मुश्किलें खड़ी कीजैसे बाबरी, अनपढ़ भी बन जाते नेताजैसे राबरी… सर पर टोपी और गले में मालापहनकर करते हैं ये गड़बड़ घोटालाअरे लोगों इनकी बहकावी बातों में न आनाContinue reading “नेता”
Category Archives: Creative Writing
When the mind is troubled
When the mind is troubled And the heart is thumping aloud. When the present turmoil Is making your warm blood boil. When there is no light And you are groping in the dark When you feel like a little fry Being baited to a shark. When your talents are lying wasted, Like leaves once green,Continue reading “When the mind is troubled”
संकल्प
मेरा संकल्प इतना कमज़ोर नहीं कि तेरा जुल्म उसे तोड़ सके मैंने अपना लक्ष्य आसमान की चोटी पर तय किया है, हिम्मत है तो तू भी अपनी ताकत आजमा कर देख ले… © Vidya Venkat (2022)
Jerusalem, Ayodhya and the God question
[I wrote this long read travel essay in 2018 after a vacation trip to Israel-Palestine.] The streets of Jerusalem lay empty the day we landed there. It was 10 am. The winter sun peeked from in between the puffy, white clouds, but not a single person could be seen walking down the streets. The shuttersContinue reading “Jerusalem, Ayodhya and the God question”
What a Himalayan trek taught me about perseverance
[First published in The Hindu, MetroPlus dated Aug 26, 2016.] My sole climbing feat before I set out on a high-altitude trek of 14,000 feet in the Himalayas was climbing a 50-feet-tall water tank in Puducherry. And that too nine years ago. I often recollected, with an odd mix of amusement and shame, how myContinue reading “What a Himalayan trek taught me about perseverance”
An anthropologist among the journalists 