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OPEN LETTER TO THE NANA PATEKARS AND MJ AKBARS OF THE WORLD By filing a defamation suit against your accusers, you have done yeoman’s service to all women. #MeToo requires men, as shameless and immoral as you, who when faced with a barrage of sexual harassment charges that in sickening detail lay bare the extent of … Continue reading neelwrites/openletter/metoo/india/15/10/2018
#METOO__ LET’S SUPPORT_YOU, I, AND WE By Neel Anil Panicker If an alien were to lose his way and skid into Earth today, it would not be wrong for him to conclude that our Earth is full of bad men. Pray, why would he think so? The answer to that is pretty simple. Look around … Continue reading neelwrites/#metoocampaign/timetospport/12/10/2018
FEAR NOT FEAR By Neel Anil Panicker She’s been with me for long. She’s my constant companion, so to say. She sleeps by me and then, come morn, she wakes up beside me. At times, on cold wintry mornings, she beats me to it. And then when I wake up, groggy eyed and sidle up … Continue reading neelwrites/fearnotfear/photochallenge/flash/musings/237words/09/10/2018
Thursday photo prompt: Faraway #writephoto GO AHEAD, TAKE THAT LEAP By Neel Anil Panicker Have you stood at the edge staring out into the abyss, your mind a turnstile, your hands and feet quivering with fear, simply unable to make up your mind, a nauseating sense of utter despair and despondency sweeping all over you? Well, … Continue reading neelwrites/essay/musings/367words/ThursdayPhotoPrompt/06/10/2018
That’s So Very Cheap By Neel Anil Panicker Cheap is a very cheap word in the way that it is so very cheaply bandied by one and all. Nonplussed? Well, you should be, especially and more so, if you belong to that blessed category of denizens who never ever had to tug at the price … Continue reading neelwrites/cheap/FOWC/essay/nonfiction/
BLACK BEAUTY By Neel Anil Panicker Black is beautiful. Black is pure pearl__ossidified, solidified, petrified to perfection emerging after thousands of years of penance from the earth’s belly, hissing, glistening, and illuminating all of mankind with its sheer magical brilliance. Black is velvety, curling and embracing and reaching hidden chambers of your heart, unlocking secret … Continue reading neelwrites/blackbeauty/musings/non-fiction/29/05/2018
JINNAH WAHAAN; JEENA YAHAAN By Neel Anil Panicker Are we going Pakistan’s way? Are we becoming a mirror reflection of what Pakistan has become in recent years? By focusing our eyes, ears and all of our sensory perceptions on our next door neighbour are we in real danger of morphing into the monster that Pakistan … Continue reading neelwrites/jinnah/editorial/kneelingdown/essay/07/05/2018
EXAMINATION MANIA HITS INDIA By Neel Anil Panicker Her’s a quick quiz. Which one month of the year is it when the blood pressure levels of parents with school going kids in India touch the roof? You guessed that correctly. It’s March but of course. March is that one interminably long month when it … Continue reading neelwrites/examinationmania/CBSE/classten/essay/nonfiction/08/03/2018
SRI DEVI: CHARACTER ASSASSINATION: INDIA’S FAVOURITE SPORT By Neel Anil Panicker There was none like her. She was non parallel. She was the queen of hearts. She set the screen on fire with her smouldering sensuality. She was head and shoulders above all. She was also a narcissist who had taken self obsession to the … Continue reading neelwrites/sridevi/windmills/FFfAW/28/02/2018
SRIDEVI- THE GIRL WHO ALMOST BOUGHT TOMORROW By Neel Anil Panicker All of us have a past, some a present too, but none of us are promised a tomorrow. It is also equally true that almost all of us have hacked their way through the past and strive hard in the present, harbouring hopes and … Continue reading neelwrites/sridevi/remembrance/820words/26/02/2018
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