UnEpic Stories

“Something imposing or impressive, surpassing almost everything ordinary in size and scale; a larger than life ‘story’ is all that lives long enough to tell the forbidden tale…” ~Praveen Katiyar

The Poet!

The Poet! “Every human is no lesser a ‘Poet’, you see, provided he craves dissatisfaction as a daily dose—to animate his passionate verse, out of the heap of usual prose… The more he feeds on his anger the more his hunger grows, the longer he stays in the inferno the brighter his aura glows… He …

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Hobby

“A ‘job’ is to earn a living, but a ‘hobby’ gives the meaning to this life; the pleasure sought from my hobby of ‘writing’ is now the anchor of deriving that drive…

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Krishna

“Could not dare to be God’s advocate, when he is the one who sees it all;he himself is there in my ignorance & arrogance when I morbidly claimed to have known it all…He is there in my submissions before himself when I lack the life-supporting wherewithal;he runs through me as energy and strength when I …

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Iron is hot…

“I won’t wait to be an acclaimed poet, don’t worry, neither would I be asking to be counted amongst the literary lot; I don’t know if I am ‘born so’ or ‘made like this’, I regret, I just respond to the impulse to hit when the iron is still hot…” ~praveen

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Yet again…

Yet again, a topper emerges beating multiple lakhs in the line; yet again, a celebration of a lucky few hundred will outshine the remorse of the rest, who are being outshined…

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Beauty…

  “Nature shows that the beauty is in the randomness, but, by us, the properties of aesthetics have been consciously defined; wilderness pleases me the most, and so do the Rivers—unwound, and the mountains—untouched & unmined… Someone has rightly once said, ” form must follow the function”, but the fetish of this society is for …

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