A fathers' day post? Guess you can call it that.

Desire not only keeps us alive, keeps us integrated, but it also allows us to experience the relationship between cause and effect in deeply personal ways, in ways that are best suited to help us learn those lessons. Unfortunately, desire has been much ma...  moreDesire not only keeps us alive, keeps us integrated, but it also allows us to experience the relationship between cause and effect in deeply personal ways, in ways that are best suited to help us learn those lessons. Unfortunately, desire has been much maligned, and most religious/spiritual schools attach a negative connotation to it – ultimately making it even more sinfully attractive. The point is that without desire, we would never have got where we have got. The desire to know, the desire to be, the desire to overcome, the desire to be desired – these are what have made us who we are as a species. Yet, this very same desire – if not seen in perspective – is what created the ghetto and the sub-Sahara, the Fat Man and the Maoists in their various manifestations.  less

Questions to be asked and solutions to be sought in the entire outcry over rape and gender crime. A two-part guest post by Subhorup Dasgupta on TillingTheEarthWoman.

A Guest Post by Rickie Khosla on an alternate version of a chapter from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Also an introduction to Blend of Tea, our little revenge on a world too busy making ends justify means.

Announcing Red Leaf Poetry Group activities for April 2013.

A poem of hope seen through eyes of the grief that grips Kashmir today.

A book review of Manju Dasgupta's memoirs, When Your Granny Was A Little Girl, reviewed by Ritwik Mallik.

A post on Family Matters, an upcoming anthology by Nivasini Publishers.

A romantic short story about a man evaluating choices.

Some wounds never heal but, with time, become bearable to the point that you can talk about them.

A Guest Post by Purba Ray of A-Musing on the survival of the fittest on the streets of India.

The Hyderabad Bloggers' Meet 2013 was held at ITC Kakatiya. The theme for the meet was Enabling Change Through Social Media. It was attended by leading bloggers from across India. It was by invitation only, and the press and media were not invited.

Announcing the second Hyderabad Bloggers Meet, January 2013.

A writing exercise undertaken as a tribute to one of the finest writers in the blogging world. A tribute also to the spirit that my parents inculcated in me.

A review of the "sedan class hatchback," the Tata Indica Vista D90 ZX.