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A Symphony in Fire

Kartikey Sehgal

On moods and desires of men. And their idea of romance.

What remains, of days gone by? Remnants of nights – broken in pieces. Of rains that lash on to the nonchalant mind.

There is no fire. No motivation. All of it is just desire. Desire. Called variously as fire, motivation, quest, courage. If desire be the root of all that is creative, then I have seen desire. It burns like fire, and motivates you towards a quest.

Why are places important.


Time and Friendship

Kartikey Sehgal

Some years back, I thought of four friends and if their close friendship will last.
It may, I thought. But don’t trust the eye that does not imagine the valley of flowers.

Many things don’t last. And the exceptions are etched in glass.

There was a boy in college. He spoke of his four friends, “this too will not last”.

Many years later and after a myriad of tribulations, he phoned one friend. “It did not last”.

He was at once a mixture …


Youth Without Youth

Kartikey Sehgal

From nytimes.com We come on earth to live and yet we prepare for a living.

We like to claim love and lust and longing while we live but what runs parallel is murder, bombs and destruction. Does the end justify the means. Is a nuclear catastrophe important so that the survivors do not make weapons again.
Japan suffered a nuclear catastrophe and is least likely to use nuclear force today. They make the best robots and cars. Is this evolution. Survival of the fittest. On …