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Manmohan Singh is a gun-collector

Preamble:- The Lovely Bones is a tale of a girl who is raped and murdered and comes to terms with what happened to her on earth while in heaven. Song To The Siren which Robert Plant is quoted as ‘the best song written’ is a soundtrack in Alice Sebold’s script. Tim Buckley’s lyrics alludes to a leader of a movement who played a role in liberating his motherland from dark days of submission and carnage - a movement that still lives watching over the nation. The scientist who headed the development of the AGNI said the only pressures he felt while creating the Indian ICBM were ‘hydraulic’ and pneumatic’. Period. The academic who is apolitical to the core did not allow the foreboding northern enemy who defecates now and then at his doorstep to alter his job description. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India, has adopted a similar apolitical stance. While the world witnessed more than a dozen attacks on Indian soil the past decades killing close to a thousand and maiming ...

Persepolis Recreated: A documentary

"Persepolis Recreated" is a documentary-animated film produced by Sunrise Visual Innovations Ltd. (2004) Achaemenid Persia occupies a very important place among the great civilizations of the ancient world. In 550 BC., Cyrus, one of those rare leaders towards whom one cannot help but gravitate, laid the foundation of the largest empire the world had ever seen. His empire was quite unique because it was built on a model of tolerance and respect for other cultures and religions. So much so that the Old Testament regards Cyrus as the savior of the Jews from Babylonian captivity; while Xenophon, the 4th century BC Greek historian, refers to him as a man of wisdom, resilient spirit and guilelessness. After Cyrus, Darius the Great elevated the Persian Empire to its zenith. The Empire now extended from the borders of India east to Greece on the Mediterranean, down to Egypt and Ethiopia in Africa and up to what is now Russia and Eastern Europe. Twenty-eight different nations were ...

Esther - when 'hatred' is retrospective

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Preamble: - Last week a Muslim friend declined to step into Starbucks. Being aware of his engram we had our beans elsewhere without debate. After discussing matters at hand, he attempted to banter his position for refusing the coffee shop. I promised to listen to his explanation after he views  Esther, an Italian production, where the role of a Jewish heroine who lived a millennium before the birth of Islam, is retold. January 2009, a Muslim cleric did civil society a favor by restating the Book of Esther  unwittingly adding an Estheriac premium to the Starbucks bean. He said the beguiling smile of the lady in the Starbucks insignia is a caricature of Queen Esther, the Jewish heroine in the Story of Purim. Posturing befitting a comic, a smiling Safwat Higazi calmly told the media “You should boycott this company. Starbucks are located in Mecca as well as in Cairo. It is not enough to avoid entering this coffee shop. It is not enough to refrain from drinki...

Hitchens - lucid toward the root

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, atheist Christopher Hitchens is lucid toward the root as he takes out another ideologue who can't help but redeem his radical brethren. The proverbial eagle is on its last legs as it swoops down on a nervous snake but it is the reptile hard pressed in defending its territory that you are sorry for, not the dying bird.    Words – Tommy Peters (Advanced appreciation is rendered for materials used without express permission of copyright owners) 

The Cylinder and Little Green Book

Preamble: - When a Persian King wants to chill Jethro Tull  makes the brill.  He cajoles Anderson to pipe Bouree into his thing and gribble Bach from Wood into a blend of fine cocktail lounge jazz to Budapest the commemoration of Babylon into the folds of his beloved Persia and Aqualung accepts the King’s brief with Rupi's Dance but not before he receives a royal promise that the Cylinder would rule the Gallery of the Minstrel ad infinitum without pause. 2500 years ago Cyrus the Great commanded Greater Persia where everyone was treated with respect, judged by ability rather than station and where diverse creeds were accepted as norm rather than tolerated. In 539 BC the man walked into Babylon and introduced the Cyrus Cylinder,  the first charter of human rights, which stands universal to this day. 30 years ago Ayatollah Khomeini commanded Persia and introduced his  Little Green Book, his book of gems , which represents to this day the fab...

Jack Pershing's 'Wicked' Convention

Preamble:- No one describes unadulterated pain better than  KoRn,  NuMetal's Grunge specialist. ‘Wicked’ is an appropriate ensemble that pans out to dregs as they stand before their open grave and stare aghast at fresh pig-entrails with a prospect of having the slosh smother their dead bodies in order to deny them a martyr’s paradise and while ‘No Place To Hide’ captures Pershing’s wicked execution convention ‘Twist’ is the teaser that conjures up the proverbial bullet dipped in pig blood. In lieu of evidence, the commentary is consigned to the category or, as the radical Islamist would prefer, the dustbin of  Urban Legends . Although the initial story is personalized to the narrative, even an established historian, let alone a victim, would not survive the prevailing atmosphere by being politically or religiously incorrect. The story alludes to a source whose family member was kidnapped by the  Abu Sayyaf  but returned unharmed without exchange of the...

Pranayam: On The Table

“I would have not known you if you had not spoken to me” he said as the annulment of age liberated the pranasahkti in his child-bride and while nutrients moved the  mooladhara   chakra  of the genitals fueled by a sumptuous Bohor Mali the quailed Quail perched  On The Table  stared across like an  infans solaris  evoking the silent portion of the primitive with finite burgundy  Pranayama  replacing  Manna  in a fusion of science and human potential omnipresent in the main arena as in the coalescing of the Chosen few without enumerating the splicing dicing and narrative but the baritone of  eight ports  that fuse elements  On The Table  into a working structure that works.  “I would have not known you if you had not spoken to me” Words, Videography - Tommy Peters (The clip was made on a Mac with CoverVersion’s Cuboid and Screenflow. Advanced appreciation is rendered for materials used witho...