Vignettes on

The Monogamy Virus

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:03:37 +0530

Krishna was not an ordinary cat.

His full name was Tensor Krishnan Iyer.

Nobody had named him that. He had simply arrived with the name.

He was black, except for a white patch under his chin. He ate only when he wanted to. Slept wherever he wanted to. And looked at human beings with the mild disappointment of a retired scientist.

Every evening at 7:13, he watched the news.

He did not understand Tamil. He did not understand English. But he understood humans.

Letting the night decide

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530

The latch clicks softer now…

not broken,

just practiced

at letting the night decide.

Silence

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:20:32 +0530

In stillness

Branches & leaves make love in secret symphonies

I listen

I embrace the hush that haunts and heals

I love silence

I live silence

Nothing

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:53:38 +0530

“In the beginning, there was neither existence nor non-existence…”

Rig Veda, Nasadiya Sukta

8th Century AD

By the 8th century, the rapidly expanding Islamic caliphates stretched across vast territories, from Central Asia in the east to the Iberian Peninsula in the west. The Indian subcontinent too had begun witnessing centuries of invasions, conflicts and political upheavals.

Baghdad, the heart of the Abbasid world and a great cultural crossroads, flourished with enormous wealth and an equally enormous thirst for knowledge. In the House of Wisdom, scholars translated, studied and debated Indian mathematics, Sanskrit texts, Persian knowledge and Greek philosophy, including the works of Aristotle.