Kartikey Sehgal
(The author states that, “You may dream of aeons of bliss for mankind but your nature will stop you from achieving your goal for a reason as simple (when compared to world saving) as gardening. Tend to the rose plant, planet-tending can wait".)
It has been a long week. I have many things to say and I have had the time to pen them down. But I resisted. I didn’t fight my self. The mind agrees to write and the heart stops it …
Crimson
Crimson’s chain of stories:
Home Truths, Trials of Time, Rambling about the Ex
Something inside me is dying. And it continues to die bit by bit every time you pick up the phone and run me down in every conversation. And yet I count the hours all over again looking forward to your next call. You never flatter me or shower me with compliments; you never ask me how my day went or even remember any of our previous conversations, yet I …
Kartikey Sehgal
[Why we celebrate Diwali: here and here.]
This Diwali, may you live up to your personal best.
When the road outside is lit with lamps and fireworks, may you find solace in your room with books and ideas. May you find solace anywhere you like.
May it be festive inside your self, so that when others greet you they don’t see decadence covered with a smile.
May you greet others with the entirety of confidence. You are not obliged to wish others. You can not change their life course with greeting cards and sweets. The best you can give them is your happiness.
Kartikey Sehgal
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s ‘talisman’, written just before his death in 1948, is popular and often finds its way in school books. It is often understood as
* The feeling of pity for the poor,
* A call for social service
* Absence of ego in humans.
Here is an interpretation that talks about the individual and her talents instead of a sense of pity for the society.