Illustration by Gemini AI “Krishna touches my hand. If you can call it a hand, these pinpricks of light that are newly coalescing into the shape of fingers and palm. At his touch something breaks, a chain that was tied to the woman-shape crumpled on the snow below. I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable – but I always was so, only I never knew it! I am beyond the name and gender and the imprisoning patterns of ego. And yet, for the first time, I’m truly Panchali. I reach with my other hand for Karna – how surprisingly solid his clasp! Above us our palace waits, the only one I’ve ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming and dissolving again like fireflies in a summer evening.” What is quoted above is the final paragraph of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel The Palace of Illusions which I reread in the last few days merely because I had time on my hands and this book hap...
"Replacing with five" is perhaps the most amusing...
ReplyDeleteYes, Alok is a gifted cartoonist.
DeleteHa! Ha! Ha! This art should survive forever. Satires are a necessity for all kinds of times.
ReplyDeleteHope Modi ji learns to laugh. At himself too.
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ReplyDeleteSome good ones there - but I too like the 'replace five'! YAM xx
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ReplyDeleteThat's the deeper truth.
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ReplyDeleteDo check Satish Acharya's cartoon. My favorite.
Sure I'll check. Humour is good for wellbeing.
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