The Dark The Dim The Bright

Originally posted on 14th July 2014 A few months back when the Kejriwal episode was gaining its pace in Delhi, And when the “Aam Aadmi Party” witnessed its first triumph, by winning the assembly elections of Delhi, THE HINDU had given a very nice and apt heading to the news piece of Aam Admi Party’s win, i.e.                                         “MANGO MAN TASTES SWEET SUCCESS.” This seemed quite interesting to me because in this particular phrase, there is a use of a very familiar and purely Indian slang in a very “Indian” way. This reminded me of the famous essay of R.K. Narayanan, “Toasted English”, In which he talks about making English, a language of Indian masses, other than its consideration and usage as a language of court rooms and learning halls. He wanted the language to have more of an Indian flavor to mingle with the Indian environment, and to be “wrapped in th...

So.... Here comes the very first post on the Dark, The Dim, The Bright. :) Its obviously not the first blog that I am going to write, But having spent a plenty of time publishing and posting my work here and there. I now decided to be a little bit streamlined and organised, and thus took a decision of integrating my works on a broader platform, and having a luxury for connecting to a larger set of audience. To talk about this blog, It came into being due to my decision of stepping into an entirely new field of  Blog  Review . Its a new sphare of work for me and I am pretty excited about it, as it would comprise a review about some of my amazing favorites including blogs and websites of both veteran and new bloggers. Book Review  is something I was quite fascinated about since a long time. Being an author of a poetry collection at 12, apart from meeting a range of extremely talented art and literary critics, it was really a fascination for me to step into thei...