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Eatery Review: The Coffee Cup, Hyderabad
The Coffee Cup, has, for long, been a place of pilgrimage for students, especially those from the adjoining university vicinity of Bhavan’s. Continue reading
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Music Review: Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones
Gentle in its hues and soft in its approach, apart from Exile on Main Street, it is perhaps the album that defined the band through the late 60s and early 70s. Continue reading
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Book Review: Home in the World by Amartya Sen
There can hardly be a more well-read intellectual that the English-speaking world has seen. Continue reading
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Wayanad: A Photojourney
Photographs from my recent forays again into the Western Ghats, this time, near the Chembra Peak in Wayanad, Kerala. Continue reading
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Photojourney
Snippets from my travels on the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, surrounded by the vastness of the Bay of Bengal in late January and early February. Continue reading
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The Man Who Belonged On Earth
Now that the words are in the open,Reason and logic bent and broken,What were the words you could have spoken? Had life cheated you in disguiseAnd left you weeping for the highs,Would the tears have fallen from your eyes? All that there is, is what seems to be-In the great ruse of perspicuity-Much less than… Continue reading
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Another New Year’s Day
I rush through the morning without inching a glanceTowards the cacophony that the clock creates.The hands tick on in an inflated silence thatOnly my past can understand right then and there.History is too troublesome, harried and beyondCapacity to concern me; at times it feels profaneAnd unnecessary too. Another year lies ahead of meIn an exaggeration… Continue reading
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A Document on Parity, Christmas Day 2022
Christmas Day, 2022Hyderabad Intemperate winds have played with your tresses,Fondled your neck, kissed your face,Mourned the lack of redressal at all abscesses,Solicited the void of warmth in space, Examined the ache that my absence brings,Wondered at what causes such hurt,Laughed at the misery of foolish things,Questioned the parity of flinging dirt, Spoken of the dew… Continue reading
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Autumn in Hyderabad
The fall has begun; the withering of the last leavesDesiring the friendlier cages of love unmatched.I walk past the doors of the monsoon closing in onMy debt-ridden past. I am invited in but politelyDecline the offer. No devil drawing the dotted lineCan change my mind nor can the upright tanglesOf Time know better. Bathukamma, Dussehra,… Continue reading
Mohul is a national-level cricketer, poet, sports journalist, travel writer and essayist from Hyderabad, India.
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