Tag: Absurdism
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Waking of Lazarus
Inside the Hall of Healing, death is rewritten five times before sunrise, sanity trades places with madness, and conscience alone refuses sedation. Waking of Lazarus is an allegory of institutional decay—where resurrection becomes bureaucracy, compassion becomes procedure, and the moon above bears silent witness.
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Mr Morose and the Happiness Tumour
A tired cleaning woman laughs her way through exhaustion, her joy as involuntary as breath itself. The narrator—Mr Morose—watches, half-in-awe and half-in-need, discovering that her laughter is both her survival reflex and his quiet medicine.
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Counting of Ants
Bopa Rai never cared for Ferraris or family feuds. Cigarette dangling, paunch spilling, he squatted on his land to count ants. Years later, Oxford and Stockholm came calling. His Nobel speech was only three words: “Ferrari, my foot.”
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The Unmaking of Bopa Rai: Weed, Parade, Beard, and Absurd Convulsions
“A promotion vanished in that moment, but I wouldn’t trade the memory for it. Eternity isn’t measured in medals, but in moments of laughter stolen from the most solemn of rooms.”
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The Mountain, the River the Sun, the Sea and the Mercedes-Benz
Siddhartha ferries a merchant, Camus smokes under an Algerian sun, Kahneman counts biases on piano, and Janis Joplin wails for a Mercedes-Benz. Between river and mountain, sun and sea, philosophy meets blues. Poverty, desire, and freedom intertwine in a surreal jam session where only the self can board the boat.Siddhartha ferries a merchant, Camus smokes…
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A laugh Riot of Misperception
एक तौलिये में भीगा दलविंदर, पानी टैंकर वाले से झगड़ता है और मामला कोर्ट ऑफ़ इन्क्वायरी तक पहुँच जाता है। पर यह कहानी यहीं नहीं रुकती — यह खुलती है भाषा की पूरी नदी पर: जी से लेकर बहनचोद तक, पिताजी से लेकर अंकल तक। भारत की संबोधनों की यह बहती धारा पश्चिमी भाषाओं से…
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…Cleopatra Asked.The Cobra Answered.”
Cleopatra’s mirror could not answer her nightly question: “Who is the dullard of them all?” Idiot, imbecile, moron — none fit. In the end, she chose the cobra’s fang, turning her search for meaning into the greatest love story of all: the queen and her Question.