Parallel Hearts

  "Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being" - Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human As we may know, Loneliness is often Romanticized- the writer staring at a blank page. But in Dazai's No longer Human, loneliness is not a mood; it is a philosophy- a condition of being. It is not the absence of other, but the disconnection from ones self that makes existence unbearable. Yozo Oba, the protagonist, is not a man who became 'lonely'. He was born with the 'wrong kind of soul' in the first place- one that sees too much, feels too deeply. What a pity. He laughs, He performs, he adapts. His life is a series of masks. But the tragedy of performance is that the actor Will eventually forget who he was before the play began. And when the play is over... Guess what remains? Nothing! That's the life an 'actor' has to live.  People think loneliness comes from being unloved. But no-no-no. Yozo...

  The King in Yellow: The King in Yellow (1895) is a collection of ten short stories by Robert William Chambers, in which the first four stories revolve around a cursed play named "The King in Yellow", that is said to make the reader insane.  The play is never revealed to us but some fragments of it are present in the book. From these fragments we have come to know about some characters - Cassilda, Camilla, and an unknown man that may be the King in Yellow himself. The reader has to assemble the meaning from fragments, unreliable narrators, hallucinations, and dreams. This ambiguity is intentional: the horror is built from what is NOT said. " The first and fourth stories, "The Repairer of Reputations" and "The Yellow Sign", are set in an imagined future 1920s America, whereas the second and third stories, "The Mask" and "In the Court of the Dragon", are set in  Paris ."   The first story, The Repairer of Reputations, starts wi...

      1 A MAJESTIC mansion stood under the wings of the silent Night, as Life stands under the cover of Death. In it sat a maiden at an ivory desk, leaning her beautiful head on her soft hand, as a withering lily leans upon its petals. She looked around, feeling like a miserable prisoner, struggling to penetrate the walls of the dungeon with her eyes in order to witness life walking in the procession of Freedom            The hours passed like the ghosts of the night, as a procession chanting the dirge of her sorrow, and the maiden felt secure with the shedding of her tears in anguished solitude. When she could not resist the pressure of her suffering any longer, and as she felt that she was in full possession of the treasured secrets of her heart, she took the quill and commenced mingling her tears with ink upon parchment, and she inscribed:            "My beloved Sister,           ...

 Getting Granny's glasses Getting Granny's Glasses i s a short story by Ruskin Bond which follows a guy named Mani and his dearest Granny- who now cannot identify his face well.  Naturally due to old age Granny's eyesight started flattering so Mani's father decided to give him the responsibility of taking Granny all the way to Mussoorie to get her eyes checked. Originally his father decided to go by himself but Granny Refused (Granny's love) to leave Mani alone at home. So, Mani and his Granny went on the trip. And despite being poor, not having much to eat on the way except of the stuff they got from their uncle, they encountered many other things. They admired the nature, Gave some food to stray monkeys, and of course Mani correcting his dear old granny every time she got something wrong like mistaking an apple for a ball. But the real lesson (according to me) is that even when they face all the challenges like when thire bus stop 10 miles away from Mussoorie due...

  What would the world be without stories, poems and plays?  Literature... It's not just writing, it's the heartbeat of human culture. It teaches us, entertains us, and even connects us to different people.  Literature is a storehouse of wisdom. It teaches us about different societies, traditions and experiences. It tells us about the past and gives us lessons about the future. It develops imagination and creativity. A novel can take us to different worlds, a poem can make us feel beautiful emotions. These small things help us to think outside the box and dream big. Literature also teaches us moral values. Fables, Folk tales and other stories often highlight honesty, kindness, and courage. They remind us that patience and hard work brings success. Literature also acts as a mirror of society. It shows us the bright and dark sides of human life, urging us to reflect and bring change.  In short, it shapes individuals, inspires societies, and preserves our culture....

Walter Russell , though known primarily as an artist, gave the world a radical scientific vision — The Inert Gas Theory — so striking that it even shocked Nikola Tesla . Tesla, a close friend of Russell, advised him to “lock up this knowledge in a safe for 1,000 years until mankind is ready for it.”   Russell himself once remarked, “ Tesla was an artist whom the world mistook for a scientist, and I am a scientist whom the world mistook for an artist .” Walter Russell made a really bold move by forming a theory that challenged even Isaac Newtons discoveries , or shall I say: A theory that denied one of the most fundamental laws of chemistry, the infamous law of conservation that is "Matter can neither be created, nor be destroyed" .   In his view, the universe is made entirely of light — appearing as compressed wavelengths (matter) or expanded wavelengths (space). And this process of compression and expansion, he claimed, happens everywhere, simultaneously, all the time...