Tête-à-Tête

Is it fun to be stimulating and discursive?

Do you believe that Moses parted the Red sea?

Do you need intelligent reactions from your listener when you say/write literature whipped with rhetorical phrases, sarcasm, irony and paradox?

Do you think sitting next to a forlorn window, thinking about the things that bothered you and writing them using dark metaphors can be called poetry? 

Do you think all of us have tad bit of misanthrope in us?

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I remember during the heydays of my blog, I would think of something in divine manifestation and write a huge blog to fit that somewhere nonchalantly... it felt good, back then. people reading something spawned from your creative wings and even with few adulation I would chuckle.

I wonder how Salman Rushdie would have felt when his work was not only condemned and disparaged but was also banned after it was claimed that the novel's portrayal of the prophet Muhammad insulted Islam. When we talk about literature, Salman Rushdie is not just a yardstick for awe-inspiring but is also a magnificent author who has made others grow their standards of writing. I am not anti-religion but I fail to understand why expressing opinion on religion becomes a punishable banality. 

It is disappointing that a free country which asks us to express our opinions gets touchy about a mere publication on God of small things. Seemingly when it was written on the sand with a twig : He who has not sinned, let him cast the first stone was taken way too fatally !