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AGE: 51
LOC: India
GEN: Male
LAST LOGIN: September 15

I have been a professional journalist with 20 years experience in editing, rewriting, feature writing, reporting, interviewing, page layout and make-up and production techniques, conversant with modern electronic technology for news gathering, analysis and dissemination.
I shifted into the education sector with a job as Consultant and Teaching Faculty in June 1999 at the prestigious Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Yelahanka, Bangalore.
Srishti is the  Art and Design college administered by the Ujwal Trust, Bangalore, which also runs the reputed Mallya Aditi International School.
www.srishti.ac.in
I have now worked with three big  organizations – the Financial Express (1980-84) in Chennai, Tamilnadu, the Deccan Herald g…

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Poetry / EYES, WINDOWS, ANTS
Version 1
14 Reviews   9 Comments
Look, in here, a room without windows! Come in, look around, my revolving head, There! a path amidst throbbing red cinders, a red-black line to a moist brown bed. Windows are lit by expatriate starlight, To dissolve in sunshine, bright to cold. Here, ghost visions gray into black granite tales, unwritten, lost, unpeel tales untold. Curled up sounds lie in a dim corner,asleep Watchdogs of shades, blank footsteps allure. In a dimmer corner, gray twilit spiders creep along silver lines that holl...
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Poetry / THE PLACE OF THE SKULL
Version 2
5 Reviews   13 Comments
“What is the colour when black is burnt?” So is the soul towards Godhead turned. To his own Will, there’s a God-sent end. No longer does he a thin life spend. “I”, great wanderer, brought to the Test, transfixed on the Cross, transfigured, "I" rest. In stillness, now, the dark Universe-wheel turns the fat Self empties, Blood the Spirit un-binds. Little Child, hearing such things, why stand eyeless, mystified? Enough that the pure into Purity by suffering is purified!
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Poetry / THE PLACE OF THE SKULL
Version 1
5 Reviews   6 Comments
What is the colour of black when it is burnt? So is the Soul who towards Godhead is turned. To his own Will and Desires, there's a God-sent end. No longer does he a thin life in Space or Time spend. His "I", the great wanderer, when brought to the Test, is transfixed on the Cross. Transfigured, it can rest. In stillness, now turns the dark Universe-wheel around, the fat Self empties, Blood sets the Spirit unbound. Little Child, hearing such things, why stand eyeless, mystified? Enough that t...
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Poetry / The I-deal
Version 1
29 Reviews   27 Comments
THE IDEAL I once perceived the Ideal and I vowed to grasp the Ideal but the Real is just real. Everything falls short. Guilt flows from the octopii sorrows, streaming forms of the imagined Ideal. Failures are the thorns of pains fertilised by non-apprehension. Struggles are the terrors of trying, seeing again and again and after questions and answers. Death is the quiet departure, separation of the "I" that perceives from the "i" that deceives. Goodness is the chain that ties in the "I' with ...
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Poetry / Two women
by EM
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Poetry / Anthem of the Broken
by QuietPoet1
1. I like it - very simple and heartwarming and, yes, I do believe we need such poems too. 2. On the rough edge of town though, this kind of poem would be seen as "cheesy" and the type of inscription laid inside a greeting, get well quick, sort of card. 3. The poem would improve tremendously if it was re-arranged in terms of line and rhythm. Some of the longer lines can be chopped up and made shorter. 4. But it warmed my heart. Good luck.
Poetry / Diversion 3 a.m.
by Howard_Bushart
1. Ha! Howard - the intellectual poet in you and the "feeling" poet seem to be clashing in here! I hope you get what I mean. You begin on a certain note and then - splash! One enters the intellectual waters. Does this contrast (?), contradiction (?) need to be resolved? I leave it as your problem. 2. (Now you see me, now you don’t). Redundant line since you have the first verse and the Cheshire cat line tells it all. Cliche. 3. Final verdict - you don't need the first verse. The rest of it ho...
Poetry / Inside the Me
by Sweettouch
1. Get rid of such cliched similes as "like a dragon breathing fire to protect and defend". 2. Wherest ever ???????? It is one thing to assert that the poet has "poetic license" to break grammatical and punctuation rules, mix the archaic and the contemporary, etc. But the poet who can break the rules successfully is the one who can first use the rules properly. It is easy to evaluate whether the poet has successfully broken the rules and in this case, I have my serious doubts! It seems to me ...
Poetry / Twilight
by rickyhgn
1. If it is about your love for the night, then why title it twilight. The two are very different. 2. Phrases I would get rid of - but worry not, as it beholds your beauty, secretive doings shall not be exposed(this is kind of tolerable but it might be more interesting if I got an image of a secretive doing). 3. I find it interesting that you make the Sun feminine. But does it hold? 4. Okay, this is a bit confusing to me - is the one who is speaking as "I" Twilight? Is Twilight enduring the p...
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