Sat-ire

Excerpt 1 - With the corona storm, the Sun seems to have finally set on the British Empire. Wuhan, the ground zero for the virus is completely devastated. With over 20,000 deaths, US enters the hardest and the saddest week in coronavirus emergency, the Americans consider it their Pearl Harbour moment, the tragic 9/11 moment. The European Union's single market is on the verge of a dramatic collapse as the fatal coronavirus pandemic continues to clench the bloc. Empty squares, chained parks, vacant avenues today define Athens, where luxury cars once queued up in traffic as motorbikes zoomed through the narrow gaps. Italy spiraled from a perfectly healthy country to near-collapse in 24 days as the coronavirus took seize. Spain comes to a standstill as it declares a state of emergency. Excerpt 2- Otters are seen roaming freely in parks of Singapore . Geese were spotted crossing the Tarmac in Israel ’s Tel-Aviv, as humans are no longer an impediment to them. As pollutant level...

On one of the several cold winter night discussions in the hostel canteen of IIM Udaipur, Himmat Bhaiya, the canteen facilitator asked us a thought-provoking question- “What is that one sentence which can make a happy person sad and a sad person happy?” The answer was more interesting than the question, it goes like this- “This too shall pass”. Indeed, good times don’t last forever nor do bad times and the only permanent thing in this universe is ‘change’. Here are a few scribbles from one of my low phases, and today when I look back to that phase and recall that canteen lesson from Himmat Bhaiya, I fondly smile and whisper to myself- he was so correct that night. Gone, but not forgotten Gone are the days when expectations induced smile, Gone are the days when possessiveness was respected, Gone are the days when distances created void, Gone are the days when complaints invited more attention, Gone are the days when special words and phrases found a place in every ...