Category Archives: Literature

Poetry & Prose

Posted on June 2, 2021 by Tarun Rattan

 

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The Fourth Sign Of The Zodiac (Part 3)

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Tarun Rattan

I know, you never intended to be in this world.But you’re in it all the same.  So why not get started immediately. I mean, belonging to it.There is so much to admire, to weep over. And to write music or … Continue reading →

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Mystery Of Love

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Tarun Rattan

O Hafez, be content and bear this pain in silence that will have to be enough. Those who judge all by reason will never understand … the mystery of Love – Rumi

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Book Review – The Tower by W.B. Yeats

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

  The Tower by W.B. Yeats My rating: 5 of 5 stars Best of Yeats with all classics like – “Sailing to Byzantium” “The Tower” “Meditations in time of civil war”, “A man young and old” and many more View … Continue reading →

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Be not afeard!

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

“Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices,That, if I then had waked after long sleep,Will make me … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Notes to Self by Emilie Pine

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

Notes to Self by Emilie Pine My rating: 5 of 5 stars One of the best confessions that I’ve read, it needs real courage to expose yourself so honestly to the world. The writing is lucid and readers just flow in … Continue reading →

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Time to be Slow

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

 

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Book Review – Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s a masterful account of Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power. Hilary Mantel has captured the essence of the time and has presented the readers a truthful journal of Tudar period. … Continue reading →

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Everything Is Going To Be All Right

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

How should I not be glad to contemplatethe clouds clearing beyond the dormer windowand a high tide reflected on the ceiling?There will be dying, there will be dying,but there is no need to go into that.The poems flow from the … Continue reading →

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Love After Love

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

The time will come when, with elation,you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror,and each will smile at the other’s welcome,and say, sit here. Eat.You will love again the stranger who was your self.Give wine. … Continue reading →

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