AI-generated illustration It wasn’t easy to discern whether he was a friend or merely an amused onlooker. He was my colleague at the college, though from another department. When my life had entered a slippery slope because of certain unresolved psychological problems, he didn’t choose to shun me as most others did. However, when he did condescend to join me in the college canteen sipping tea and smoking a cigarette, I wasn’t ever sure whether he was befriending me or mocking me. Kailasnath was a bundle of paradoxes. He appeared to be an alpha male, so self-assured and lord of all that he surveyed. Yet if you cared to observe deeply, you would find too many chinks in his armour. Beneath all those domineering words and gestures lay ample signs of frailty. The tall, elegantly slim and precisely erect stature would draw anyone’s attention quickly. Kailasnath was always attractively dressed though never unduly stylish. Everything about him exuded an air of chic confidence. But the wa
For, an unpoisoned mind perishes too quickly (in today's world).
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the profound & thought-provoking post.
Not just in today's world, dear Indian Writer. Didn't Jesus advise people to have the cunning of serpents?
Deletekiss of life !! kiss of death !! A matter of perspective !!
ReplyDeleteLife and death, good and evil... poles merge, Aram, in the wider perspective.
DeleteReading this, I am reminded of Sylivia Plath's 'Kiss me and you shall see how important I am'.
ReplyDeleteVery few people were aware of the neurotic side of human life as Plath was. Thanks for bringing her here.
Deleteoh.. deadly! Reminds me of Jack the Ripper!
ReplyDeleteNot to such an extreme, Panchali. I was looking at the inevitable intermingling of good and evil in human life. Can innocence survive in the human world?
DeleteGood one...but as soon as I read the title, I could only think of Cadbury's jingle! :D Maybe it's time to have that ;)
ReplyDeleteYeah, you've just reminded me of the Cadbury ad.
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