My friend Jinju, Is the cutest cat, In the entire universe. Jinju sleeps under the cars In our building’s parking lot. When he sees me...

All of Earth is ‘The Holy Land’, And not just one bit of it alone, For, the whole vast Earth itself Is the very body of God And because...

By   Niggy   Binkles   Recently, a friend told me that her daughter had taken a break from a lucrative job abroad to return and be a...

Even now, six decades later, He recalls so very clearly, When he was two, maybe three, As a baby, in a red plastic tub, Having his daily...

O Great Parent of the Universe, I really must inform You (As if You didn’t already know) Of abundant evil blessed and done Down numerous...

Having spent nine months or so In our biological mother’s womb, And then pushed out into this world, But even after that we’ve still...

Ewww! What an awful sight I came across this morning: Ambling along the beach by the bay, At dawn, or a little thereafter, Fishing boats...

Oh what a great delight, Truly a wonderful sight, At breakfast this morning To spot—guess what?—a crow!   It hopped about on the low...

By Niggy Dolcy Binkles   Little Tory lived in a big city with her mother. Her father lived in their village, a short distance from the...

I’ve heard it said— And maybe it really is true— That all this is simply a play, Your Cosmic Drama, Being staged (perhaps since eternity...

She learnt of You at her mother’s knee. You do recall (since You forget nothing) the sweet, direct communion that she enjoyed with You...

How nice the world might be If every now and then Things would turn upside down: If we walked on our heads And ate with our feet; Combed...

For almost sixty years now, While in this present body-mind complex, I have thought my thoughts, I have spoken my words, I have done my...

By Niggy   It was a Sunday morning and Sona and Sameer had woken up rather late as they didn’t have to go to school that day. They...

By Mesha Oh   Conflict in the name of religion between rival sets of religionists has been a pervasive feature of the human condition....

By Baselos   Imagine if suddenly one day, human beings collectively decided that they must live in just the same way as their ancestors...

By Niggy Binkles   Delisa and Cheppy, two children, lived along with their parents in a tall apartment complex in a busy city. Their...

By Pernickety Precilla What Is to Be Done? is a well-known treatise penned in the early twentieth century by Vladimir Lenin, leading...

By Yo-yo When I was growing up (I’m talking here of around half a century or so ago!), it was common for children to have one or more...

By Mesha   The other day, the newly-married wife of a nephew of mine invited me over to their place for a meal. This was to be the first...