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The importunate Eight

A wise man once said “let there be light”. But sadly, there was none. There followed an interregnum of darkness that bent our minds into twisted little pretzels...

the opposite love

Why do tears well up from deep within, like a fountain of sadness inside. Whenever we think of our love unrequited, it bubbles forth showing the world our miser...

What if you were unable to speak?

You have the power to speak and are very voluble when given a chance. But for some mysterious reason you decided one fine day that speech was unnecessary. It is...

The value of a smile

What is it that human beings have that the other species on our planet do not? I am not talking about intelligence for that is debatable given how we behave lik...

Story: The disintegration man

Manish was terrible when he had nothing to do because no one could predict his actions. He was liable to do something totally crazy and sometimes far worse than...

Nature and its commandments

Nature encompasses living and non living things in the entire universe. We cannot define nature for it subsumes us. Do we realize how our perception of nature h...

the solitary two

Behold them, a tiny cavalcade, a mother followed by her cub. Gracing the top of the mountain; with trunks undulating in disdain, trumpeting to skies of gloomy s...

Digital Marketing: It isn’t broken yet but still needs fixing!

The buzzword for digital marketing gurus for the last decade or so has been omni channel marketing where messages are optimized in terms of delivery, size, cont...

Life Stories: The eternal friendship of Imitiaz and Ravi

Imitiaz was a brown skinned ten year old boy who lived in the city of Pamar. His best friend was a tall gangling boy of the same age who went by the name of Rav...

Meditation is not the answer to your problems

As all things spiritual, meditation evolved from the need to assimilate oneself. If we are still then we can resonate with our environment. That environment is ...

BONELAND

The North American Prairie. After the great Laurentide Ice Sheet receded around 12,000 years ago, the climate began to moderate; this time without the large pre...

Story: The marital theater of Siryanpur

Shanu was sitting at home reading the daily newspaper when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a squawking peacock. Immediately he rushed outside and to his...

Poem: Remorseless

I burned like a golden flame, dancing at the end of a waxen wick. Suddenly I saw the shining rabble; a conflagration, of multi hued fires beyond the sky, beside...

Trees”R”Us

Nothing in life represents us more than a tree. I am positively sure that all homo sapiens evolved from trees. Charles Darwin did have it his way for a long tim...

Life Stories: The lovely lady who never was

It was an ordinary town with ordinary people living their ordinary lives. The town was tucked away in the middle of a stretch of land filled with ravines and ri...

General relativity 101 - Gravitational waves in a nutshell

As the entire Steem planet probably knows it today, SteemSTEM and Utopian.io are currently organizing their future joint meetup at Virgo Labs, close to Florence...

Why cyber security in enterprises badly needs a rethink

We have come a long way since 1990 when the form virus made itself known corrupting the boot sector of the hard disk. It usually was transmitted when an infecte...

Fate or something like it

A man I knew lost his father to an accident on the highway. He lived forever in the fear that it would happen to him as well. He never drove a vehicle afterward...

Ten things for blockchain startups to remember

Blockchain is by far the most revolutionary model to emerge in the last decade. It has the potential to disrupt entrenched players in industry and governments. ...

Life Stories: Fools rushed in while the angels fled

The train breathed noisily one last time and punctuated its intentions with a sonorous hoot. As always pandemonium arrived in a breathtaking rush. Porters buzze...