• far from failed_haiku

    It has been a couple of months since the one of a kind haikai journal shut its doors. I have noticed it to be the fate of several journals these days, and wonder if it has to do with editor-burnout. One does get exhausted with taking care of life while at the same time running…

  • IWD 2025

    Humans have been around for so long, and yet somehow the species has still so much to learn about itself. I have failed to understand what prompts people to justify second class citizen treatment of women. Women have to constantly perform twice as well to be recognized as half as good.   As a species…

  • Winter blues

      All around us is a tug of war. A tug here and a tug there. By people and peoples who are not the ones dying. Not the ones living their fears. Not the ones whose blood flows. And yet so many tugs. And among all these tugs and stretches it is the common man…

  • A little marvel!

      Late post!This news is so dear to me because @pealogic had published my very first haiku back in 2021! In 2024, my ku muggy afternoonseven the dog blinksone eye at a time was nominated for the Touchstone Award. Being one of the nominees is for me an award in itself because of the number…

  • daya and baya

      Here is a reference to one of my favorite musicals. But more importantly, it’s a nod to the hidden music in our lives…Yugen Quest Review has brought out a beautiful tribute to the late percussion maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain. Link here   My memory of Ustadji’s performance was actually when he and his brother…