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The New Aeon, Until the Pride Lands’ End: Fan Fiction.

The occasion had no precedent. A Prince of the Pride Lands was being proclaimed King of the Tree of Life. The assemblage of animals…

12 min readOct 29, 2022

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The Ultimate Master

My English translation of a conversation between Chanakya and Chandragupta in the 2011 T.V. series, Chandragupta Maurya (the YouTube…

7 min readMar 17, 2022

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The Ultimate Master

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Favourite Character from The Silmarillion

Great characters abound in The Silmarillion, so that the naming of any one as favourite might, if tenuously, be considered unjust to…

5 min readMar 2, 2024

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The Strange Dream Two

It was something of an open-air auditorium in the campus of a university; but we were not students of that university. We were assembled…

2 min readNov 13, 2023

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The Strange Dream One

The sky was clear; a brilliant blue, and the sun was high. My younger brother and I were in a posh-looking neighbourhood of tree-shaded…

3 min readNov 13, 2023

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The Furtive Cynosure

It is the year 1953, as available research goes, done deep but by only a handful of people.

3 min readNov 13, 2023

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The Tribulation Today

It was an uplifting evening on Sunday. So soon as my grandmother shut the door, proceeding downstairs for her evening stroll, my younger…

6 min readOct 10, 2023

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Of the Churning of the Primaeval Ocean of Milk

Now it was that with the aid of Rishi Satyavrata, Lord Vishnu, Supreme of Lords, in the form of a fish big and majestic, led the most…

6 min readAug 25, 2023

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Of the Churning of the Primaeval Ocean of Milk

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Dégringolade

It had been six years since his retirement from politics. In every wise, he was unusual. For one, he was hundred and thirty one years of…

11 min readAug 20, 2023

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Cultural Majesty, Political Dinge

The General was back at his residence, and he sat in his specially built library reading a book, sipping fine digestif after an early…

4 min readAug 12, 2023

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Samved Iyer

Write as I do for contentment alone, it is made more worthwhile still by the patience of readers, and for that virtue, herewith, my sincere appreciation.

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