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By Rajbir Deswal
Anyone can smell the difference between Milady’s cologne and a bottle of tharra (country made liquor) form Ghaziabad...but to name a town just by the smell of the place with ones eyes closed? Now here’s a challenge. If a Keats...
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Remembering Majaz
By:Rajbir Deswal
“There I see the yellow moon,
rising from the parapet of a mansion.
Like a Muslim priest’s headgear;
like a Baniya’s ledger book;
like a poorman’s youth;
like a widow’s charm—it’s all useless.
What do...
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Promised Bridge to the Girls Hostel! And many more things!
By: Rajbir Deswal
We then lived and studied in a mufassil town boasting of a university with a department of English. The town had been famous for harboring rain and flood waters to the...
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What kind of Hindus are we who tolerate even the ‘Kanjaks’ being charged with batons–No lessons learnt?
By Rajbir Deswal
It seems we haven’t learnt any lessons from the incidents of stampedes and large scale killing of men and...
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by Rajbir Deswal
I had never known that by standards of protocol, those who have blue blood flowing in their veins — so to say the royals, are “untouchables” too. President Obama’s wife Michelle’s hugging the Queen of England, in London at...
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My Ghost Writer
By: Rajbir Deswal
“I invoke thee, my Holy Ghost Writer (G.W.) in the name of the most revered Bard of Avon who with his weird sense of the supernatural created Horatio, Duncan, the three witches. Thou are no less blest than...
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Encounter with “Holypol”
By:Rajbir Deswal
Trying to work out a case, I felt like scratching my head. I removed may peak-cap and unconsciously rubbed my baton with it. A jinn appeared out of nothing and saluted me.
He introduced himself as the...
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By:Rajbir Deswal
My father who was born in 1930, after the First World War and before the Second, was there informing us about the “wages of war”, in Sahir Ludhianvi’s inimitable style—Jung mashriq main ho ya magrib main; amano aalam ka...
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By: Rajbir Deswal
Mr. H.K.Dua, Editor in Chief of The Tribune, though admitted the other day, that the present day journalists are “hacks” who in a hurry to file their stories, tend to overlook the indulgent side of reporting, in their anxiety of...
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More than what meets the eye
By:RAJBIR DESWAL
To be able to read between the lines means the clairvoyance to comprehend what is actually intended to be conveyed. But how about going micromillimetres distance between the canvas and the brush to...
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