Owen Flanagan of Duke University, a leading consciousness researcher, writes that "Evidence strongly suggests that humans in all cultures come to cast their own identity in some sort of narrative form. We are inveterate storytellers." Centuries ago, the written form changed the storytelling sandbox when the passed-down oral versions could be compiled into books, making …
Author: Prachi Jain
Prachi Jain is a short story and real-estate writer. She is a self-proclaimed skincare/home remedies guru and an impeccable procrastinator with some unusual habits like blessing each airplane that she sees from her bedroom window. She is very thankful for her abilities to rethink every consensus and reevaluate every opposition.
Her work has been published in the Huffington Post, Ascent Aspirations, Vending Machine Press, Six Sentences, and Brown Girl Magazine.
Writing in Sequence
Many writers who write long pieces either write in sequential order or write random parts and bring them together. Their writing may resemble either a mechanical march forward or a more circuitous path leading sometime back to the beginning. A narrow alley sometime may lead their work to the end. They then come back and …
What to expect . . . in 2014
We bid adieu to 2013 more than a month ago. In the first few weeks of 2014, most of us have made mental ledgers of our achievements and morbid lists of our failures of the past year. The pragmatic ones among us have quickly rejoiced or sulked, whatever the case may be, and moved on …
I Resolved To . . . .
The first time I learnt what a New Year’s Resolution was, it was already a couple of weeks into the New Year and by then I had already admitted to all who asked that I did not have one. When I was made to realize my so-called gaffe as if I had breached a law …
Who gave you the rose?
I came home with a single red rose-bud sitting taut on a very long stem. The edges of the petals were curled down ever so slightly and the shading there was a lighter red. Perfect rose standing in a test tube of some rose nurturing elixir. I was elated. I placed that one rose in a vase …
Post Sandy
Sandy had a deep emotional effect on me like the one where nothing, not even retail therapy does the trick. I couldn't have ventured to go shopping anyways with my eyes bulging out of their sockets and my hair with multiple layers of frizz like I just got electrocuted. I looked so unkempt; you would find the …
Interesting connotations of ‘Interesting’
“How do I look in this new outfit?” A not too close friend asked the other day. Truth be told or truth be withheld? I had so many answers to her question. Hideous! Abominable! Shocking! Totally ridiculous! I looked at her and said, “Interesting!” What a wonderful word! I felt good. I did not insult …
Under The Night Sky
Under the night sky,you and I walked.The dim light of the stars cast a halo around uslike ghosts with a form.Our feet sank in the cool desert sandas dense as our emotions,heavy, drowning usUnder the night sky we were mesmerizing, as the stoked up magic of a wizardMoving up and down the slopes of the …
Women in the poetry of painters like Rossetti and Michealangelo
Critics usually divide the painting and poetry of painter-poets into two different forms of art but sometimes artists make their art so fluid that it segues seamlessly from poetry to art. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and Michelangelo (1475 – 1564) both were painter-poets and both depicted women in a different light but their portrayal …
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Jeremy Bentham, Push Pin, and Poetry
The Founder of Utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham once said, " All poetry is misrepresentation." A pretty utilitarian concept, of course! He asserted that push-pin (a trivial but popular game of that time) is as good as poetry or that a push pin player is as good as a reader of poetry. Art, he maintained, was devoid of …
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