Published in ILLUMINATION·Sep 26, 2022Member-onlyThe Crime of Being an ActorThe Inside Track for Acting — “… to understand the criminal mind you must go directly to the source…” - John Douglas Have you ever heard hair-raising stories about the occupational hazards of being an actor? Let me tell you, I’ve got quite a collection! …Acting13 min readActing13 min read
Published in Live Your Life On Purpose·Jan 19, 2021Member-onlyKidnapping Can Cast Down for Sure. But Can It Elevate?Here is a conundrum indeed! How soon can you solve it? — My object in parading this private affair before the reader is to commemorate the remarkable series of events and convey the evidence of what love can build and what it can destroy. I present to you here a true story with written evidence that came to my possession through the…Family10 min readFamily10 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Jan 1, 2021Member-onlyA Skeleton in My Family’s Cupboard Is a Skeleton of a DogPenetrate the darkness which clouded over the fate of one girl — This story begins in a sheepfold — it associates with kids — gropes its way through dreadful life mutilation, and stops where only death reigns. I reveal this tale in the first person — the way it was told to me by my cousin, let it be written. …Dogs9 min readDogs9 min read
Published in Hello, Love·Dec 23, 2020Member-onlyShe Hated Me Because I Wouldn’t Hate HerMy best friend happened to be a monomaniac — Her boyfriend falling in love with me was the last link that held back her devilish hatred. Eva and I were friends from the first day in college. For seven years, we were spending hours together, talking in person and on the phone. She was a year older and had…Friendship4 min readFriendship4 min read
Published in Inspired Writer·Dec 13, 2020Member-onlyRearrange in Your Fashion the Person You Love. Mistake That Costs You Your Happiness.The valuable wisdom of the Tao Te Ching teaches how to avoid a common blunder of many otherwise happy couples — Phantasmagoric guarantors of family happiness are care above any considerations and love beyond any measure. 43rd Verse The softest of all things overrides the hardest of all things. That without substance enters where there is no space. Hence I know the value of nonaction. Teaching without words, performing without actions…Love5 min readLove5 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Dec 10, 2020Member-onlyWith COVID Isolation, We Have a Legit Chance to Be LazyHow lazy life attitude can feel good and gift you with new happiness — Languor has all the diablerie that can come from the toffee and coffee and just as much my craving to it. When I am close to becoming stressed, I leave only self, self, self — and find a blissful fascination in stripping my life of the finery with which schedules…Quarantine6 min readQuarantine6 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Nov 17, 2020Member-onlyHow Writer Can Live and Create in a Story-Book StyleI don’t need wine, cos’ I’m intoxicated with words — Bury yourself in an inexplicable sweetness of my words. The walls are never a prison, and any roof never stifles me. I manage to preserve the adventurism while being locked and isolated, for my words are real, as solid and true as every imaginable experience. …Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
Published in Hello, Love·Nov 16, 2020Member-onlyWe Often Mistake Love for FireworksReal love is quiet, calm, and boring. — Loose and misguided young fellows look for fireworks in love to continue. It is exhausting to look for a long time at the multitude of colors with your eyes open. He was a forest, immeasurable, pathless, and enchanted. He was luring me to a lifelong adventure. Being close to this…Love5 min readLove5 min read
Published in Inspired Writer·Nov 16, 2020Member-onlyHow Death Heightens All Memories and Dissolves All Painful RecollectionsShe had acquired only delight from the perusal of the years together — When the despair of death eats into your soul, the only consolation left is to live in a fool’s paradise of happy memories. Time is a perfect filter. It clears the memory of emotions suffered through. My father was aggressively cheerful and terribly charismatic. He began every conversation with passion and ended it in an obsession. Women always had conceived for him a…Death5 min readDeath5 min read
Published in Inspired Writer·Nov 10, 2020Member-onlyThe Art of Promising Nothing and Getting No One UpsetI know in my heart that ‘I cannot promise’ and ‘No’ is worth saying — Spiritual topsy-turvydome is released when you pull its ugly nose and rejoice at the universal lack of activity. Of late, I witnessed an urgent need to educate myself in all the riff-raffs of the art of promising nothing. We were married for only a year, and we were comic in a tragedy of our incongruities. I was all the unconscious and elementary promising and planning. He was an utter superiority…Life6 min readLife6 min read
