The Kalam Effect: My years with the President: Book review

by
P.M.Nair
Author:        P.M. Nair P. M. Nair had a long and varied career in the IAS, which he joined in 1967.  In July, 2002, he was appointed Secretary to the President and continued that position all through the five years (July 2002-July 2007) of APJ Abdul Kalam’s tenure at Rashtrapathi Bhavan.
The Kalam Effect is an account [...]

Read Full Post »

THE TINY LABOURERS by Amrita G.

They are tiny labourers
Working for themselves.
Living as their neighbours,
We don’t do much for ourselves.
Hungrily I ate, dropping a piece of wafer
Greedily they came; united they took.
This forced me to give them a look.
Poor ants! Struggling to take it!
“I will help you dear ones”, I said
I took the piece from them,
Depressed they went empty handed…
Seeing this [...]

Read Full Post »

Gleaming Ganga by Amrita G.

Snow mounts pushed apart,
She gains the space and departs,
Her journey as the glorious Ganga…

Pushing those mounts behind,
Gushing through the greenery,
She looks like the white quill on a parrot.

Spouting towards the plains,
From the top of the peaks,
She sounds aloud her laugh.

With a paper and a pen,
Poets all around her,
To praise her beauty,
Which never [...]

Read Full Post »