There is indeed a science behind running a startup and creating a product but a large part of it feels like a mystery. A poem explains how it feels!
Immortal Wound
January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Right reader of a good poem receives an immortal wound according to Robert Frost. Err, what wound?
Go Forth – Levi’s Campaign
September 22, 2011 By 9 Comments
Poetry, even when employed to peddle souped up nothing, still carries with it the majesty of the spheres it issues from. Like a flame in the cup of your hand, a thing so fragile, yet so rife with possibilities.
Krishna – Sri Aurobindo
August 22, 2011 By 2 Comments
Of all Avatars of the Divine Sri Krishna alone has a special place. Sri Rama is venerated. Every other Avatar prior to him is acknowledged and prayed to. But none is adored with the intensity and rapture that Sri Krishna is. Why is that so? We would not know entirely, until the same intensity of [...]
Invictus and Invitation – Two Poems
January 8, 2010 By 1 Comment
I saw the movie Invictus recently. It chronicles how a game of Rugby brings together the erstwhile victims and perpetrators of Apartheid in South Africa. The movie is brilliant by itself what struck me was the poem Invictus that plays a significant role in the movie and hence its use as the title. While reading [...]
Fragments of Aspiration – 1
January 4, 2010 By 2 Comments
Repentance, that alchemy of the heart Transmuting vileness into a luminous submission ********************** Deeper the mire, vaster the heavens ************************ There is a need for evil in the world. Without it virtue has no reason to exist In a way every aspiration wakes the shadow of its own ascent. ************************ The tyrant is but a [...]
Shakespeare in a River Of Tweets
April 15, 2008 By 3 Comments
The weekend was dull. Amongst the teeming conversations in the blogosphere nothing made me pause. It was the same thing over and over. Yahoo this, Google that, Microsoft sucks and so on. Sometimes reality resembles a junkyard. Debris in various stages of preparation. Me needed a little poetry. And all I had in hand was [...]
Sleep
August 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Such a guileless beckoning from the worlds of sleep A blanket of hush upon the clamour of life High and low, rise and fall postponed Another day, perhaps another life.. del.icio.us Tags: sleep, poetry, philosophy
Sorrow is knowledge
July 18, 2007 By 2 Comments
And thus began the self-deception that all sorrow is knowledge and the tacit acknowledgement of grief as the sign of wisdom. The phrase occurs in Manfred, a drama in poetry by aord Byron, in the first soliloquy of Manfred, the protagonist who debates the intent of life having known all that is to be known, has an unknown and [...]
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