Ta-da! Goblin it is…

Why do these Oxford guys announce the word of the year so late?We subalterns are always left in the lurch. Why can’t they do it like the Chinese ? Declare “the year of …” right in January, n you have 11 more months left to be a pig, mice or rabit! Anyway, since I just […]

Hard boiled and deep fried religion

That’s what is on the menu these days. Everyone out to prove their own as the world’s best, oldest, most scientific, historically secular, closer to God, the religion of God etc. My God and Your God may or may not be the same but coincidentally, Heaven and Hell appear to be in the same place, […]

A Piece of Cake

Wonderful construct! The creamy, spongy, sweet and velvety heaven in every spoonful/bite, full of luscious delight! I am of course talking about the gooey ones with the right oomph 😁 The beautiful stuff needs to be worshipped! What a small little geometric pack of sensual pleasure! Beautiful to look at and every bite a treat […]

At Camp Splendour…

…glimpses of my campsite and it’s verdant surroundings in the Annamalai Hills…yes, I took a break from the usual and what a break it was…

Deepawali is here…

So much has changed since I wrote https://sushmitasahay.com/2020/11/13/happy-diwali/ two years ago. Yet,amidst all that scathes the world, festivals arrive to remind us of the passage of time, the value of life and the real ways of purposeful living. Deepawali is here. A beautiful festival of lights symbolising gratitude. Its a day of thanksgiving : Indian […]

Villains in India

😜Here I am talking only silver screen… Why villains today? Well, our festival of Epic proportions, Dusshera/ Vijayadashami/ Durga Puja just got over. Several villains were slain then in the prehistoric times. And this mega festival celebrates all of them and some more… So, I am back with my musings on what is currently raising […]

He is right…

“What does not kill me makes me stronger” -Friedrich Nietzsche (German: Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker) is part of aphorism number 8 from the “Maxims and Arrows” section of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (1888). This maxim sums up my zeal for moving on…in a big way! Afterall, what makes us? What […]

The Queen and us

We grew up learning that the Pussy Cat went to London to visit the queen. Our subservient Indian psyche always forgave her- the harmless royalty which lived in a palace, visited the commonwealth nations on ceremonies and was so enmeshed so much in her own internal issues to mind the world! Just seven decades ago, […]

Come September

September is almost here, a lovely month, cusp of summer and winter, Libra and Scorpio and the birth month of my most favourite person on this Earth. For me, it is a mild and happy time of the year. Festivals are round the corner, and a major chunk of the year has thankfully gone past. […]

75

Our nation celebrates 75 years of achieving sovereinity this Monday the 15th of August. Emotional build up to the D-Day is getting big.I am unable to truly express the feelings of the two octagenerians in my family – the true midnight’s children! Ironically, Salman Rushdie of the iconic saga Midnight’s Children fame has been recently […]