Why did Yeshua look for fruits in the first place knowing it wasn’t the season for figs, let alone curse it?

“Spotting in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came up to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it wasn’t fig season. He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” And his talmidim heard what he said.

Mark 11:13-14

Let me humbly present this.

Before directly getting to the answer, I would like to make sure who Yeshua is, and what did He come for, according to the Scriptures.

Who?

“The Word became a human being and lived with us, and we saw his Sh’khinah, the Sh’khinah of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.”

Yochanan (Jhn) 1:14 CJB

Why?

““Don’t think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete.”

Mattityahu (Mat) 5:17 CJB

Presuming you understand Torah to be the instructions and not the law, I’m moving on…

Let’s just leave that for now and look at the very nature of a fig tree. Unlike other fruit trees, fig trees do not grow leaves first, instead come fruits and then come leaves to cover each fruit. As such, it was well known for passersby to take a fig tree with leaves to have fruit inside. Which is why Yeshua feeling hungry, searched for fruits and was disappointed with the owner of the tree who had taken all the fruits which were supposed to be left for the strangers and the poor.

““‘When you harvest the ripe crops produced in your land, don’t harvest all the way to the corners of your field, and don’t gather the ears of grain left by the harvesters; leave them for the poor and the foreigner; I am Adonai your God.’” (v)”

Vayikra (Lev) 23:22

These fruitless fig trees also represent the spiritual disposition of the Jews at the time of Yeshua; They were openly all leafy guarding the Torah and holding the appointed times of Yahweh. But deep down, their faith was fruitless.

“Yeshua answered them, “Yesha‘yahu was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites — as it is written, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.”

Mark (Mrk) 7:6 CJB.

Hope this helps.

“Everything in the Torah points to the Word made Flesh”

Shalom

A Message to Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar

Why Tamil Nadu Wants Vijay Invited to Form the Government

Tamil Nadu Election 2026 Has Produced a Political Earthquake

Tamil Nadu has delivered one of the most dramatic verdicts in its modern political history. With 108 Assembly seats, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam led by Vijay has emerged as the single largest party in the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. The result has shaken the political foundations of both Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam while pushing Tamil Nadu into an intense constitutional and political debate.

This is no longer merely a celebrity victory story. This is now a full-scale debate about democracy, constitutional morality, gubernatorial discretion, and the future of Tamil Nadu politics.

The biggest question dominating the state today is simple:

Why has TVK, the single largest party in Tamil Nadu, still not been invited to prove its majority on the Assembly floor?

Why the Governor’s Delay Matters in Tamil Nadu

The current Governor of Tamil Nadu, Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, has reportedly insisted that TVK establish majority support before being invited to form the government. Legally, the Governor does possess constitutional discretion in a hung Assembly. But constitutional discretion cannot become political hesitation.

India’s parliamentary democracy has repeatedly relied upon one core principle:

the floor of the Legislative Assembly remains the legitimate arena to determine majority.

The Supreme Court’s observations in the S. R. Bommai v. Union of India case reinforced the importance of floor tests in preserving democratic legitimacy.

India has witnessed this convention repeatedly:

• Karnataka, 2018

• Maharashtra, 2019

• Goa, 2017

• Uttar Pradesh, 1998

• Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s 13-day government in 1996

Even Vajpayee was invited to form the government as leader of the single largest party despite lacking a confirmed majority initially. Senior advocate Sanjay Hegde has now publicly argued that majority should not be tested “inside Raj Bhavan” but on the Assembly floor itself. That statement captures the heart of the current Tamil Nadu political crisis. If TVK lacks numbers, the floor test will expose it.

If TVK commands support, the floor test will validate it. That is precisely how parliamentary democracy is designed to function.

Can the Single Largest Party in Tamil Nadu Be Ignored?

Tamil Nadu is not politically passive territory. This is the state that dismantled Congress dominance in 1967 and permanently altered India’s federal political structure. Tamil Nadu’s political culture was built through language movements, regional assertion, state-rights battles, and resistance against excessive central influence.

The anti-Hindi agitations were not isolated protests.

They became defining moments in Tamil political identity. That history matters deeply today.

People in Tamil Nadu do not vote only through administrative calculations.

They vote through memory, through dignity and through identity. That is why the present delay has become politically explosive across the state.

A growing section of voters now believes the people’s mandate is being treated with visible caution because the traditional political establishment did not anticipate this outcome. Whether that perception is entirely fair or not is now secondary. Politically, the perception itself has become powerful.

DMK and AIADMK Face a New Political Reality

For decades, DMK and AIADMK projected themselves as defenders of Tamil Nadu’s autonomy and federal dignity. Election after election, both parties spoke about protecting Tamil interests from external political interference. Yet today, the intensity that once defined Dravidian resistance politics appears noticeably restrained. That silence has become politically revealing.

The Tamil Nadu election 2026 results did not merely produce anti-incumbency. They exposed deep public exhaustion. A younger generation of voters no longer feels emotionally connected to the old Dravidian political binaries that shaped previous decades. Many voters wanted disruption.

They wanted unpredictability.

They wanted entrenched political power centres to feel uncomfortable again. TVK became the political vessel for that frustration.

Why BJP’s Shadow Over the Tamil Nadu Political Crisis Matters

Governor Arlekar’s long association with the BJP and RSS has naturally intensified scrutiny surrounding the current government formation process.

Congress leaders, Left parties, VCK leaders, and several opposition voices have openly questioned whether political pressure from the BJP leadership at the Centre is influencing the Governor’s approach. Those remain political allegations, not judicial findings. That distinction is important. But constitutional offices survive not merely through legality.

They survive through public confidence.

The Governor’s office must remain visibly neutral.

The moment constitutional discretion begins to resemble political preference, democratic trust weakens rapidly. Tamil Nadu has now entered that dangerous territory.

Vijay’s Rise Is Bigger Than Cinema Politics

Reducing Vijay’s victory to cinema popularity now appears politically simplistic. Cinema can attract crowds.

It cannot independently produce 108 Assembly seats in one of India’s most politically aware states. (reuters.com)

This election reflected:

• youth frustration,

• middle-class fatigue,

• distrust toward political dynasties,

• rising urban anger,

• and the search for a new political language in Tamil Nadu.

Whether Vijay ultimately succeeds or fails in governance is a separate democratic question altogether. But the public mandate itself is undeniably real. And democratic systems lose moral authority when they appear uncomfortable with political change.

Tamil Nadu’s Mandate Deserves a Floor Test

Reports now indicate:

• Congress has extended support to TVK,

• Left parties and VCK leaders have publicly demanded that Vijay be invited to form the government,

• TVK continues active negotiations for majority support,

• and pressure surrounding the Governor’s decision continues to intensify. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

This moment requires constitutional clarity.

Not prolonged uncertainty.

Not procedural ambiguity.

Not political hesitation hidden behind technical language.

The Governor is not expected to guarantee stability before inviting a claimant.

The Constitution already contains a mechanism to determine legitimacy. That mechanism is called a floor test. If TVK fails to prove majority, the Assembly will reject it.

If TVK commands the numbers, democracy demands that it govern. Tamil Nadu has travelled through anti-Hindi agitations, Emergency-era political confrontations, coalition instability, regional assertion, and decades of fierce electoral battles.

This state understands democracy deeply.

Its mandate cannot remain waiting indefinitely outside Raj Bhavan.

A Message to Mr. Rahul Gandhi

Mr. Gandhi, Tamil Nadu does not whisper. It signals. It debates in tea shops, questions in classrooms, and remembers in silence. The state today stands at a peculiar crossroads where admiration for your family name coexists with growing impatience towards the political arrangements that surround it.

There remains, undeniably, an emotional affinity for you among large sections of the electorate here. It is visible in the way your visits draw crowds beyond party lines, in the way older voters recall the Congress legacy with nostalgia, and in the way younger voters still view you as a national counterweight in a polarised setting. That goodwill is real. Yet goodwill unattended has a short shelf life. Politics is not merely about inheritance. It is about timing, decisiveness, and the courage to read the room before the room turns away.

The Indian National Congress in Tamil Nadu has, for too long, appeared reactive rather than assertive. There was a time when the party could have tested the waters independently and measured its organic strength on the ground. That window has closed. Today, attempting such a move would appear erratic rather than bold. Meanwhile, your principal national rival strategises relentlessly, every day of the year, building narratives, cultivating alliances, and sharpening electoral machinery without pause. In contrast, the Congress too often seems to awaken only when seats are being negotiated at the eleventh hour. Optics matter. Voters interpret lethargy as lack of intent.

Your continued alliance with the DMK is where discomfort turns into disillusionment for many. Anti-incumbency sentiment against the current state government is palpable across districts. Promises made during campaigns are frequently revisited in public conversations with scepticism rather than satisfaction. Governance achievements are acknowledged, but so are grievances, and they are growing louder. In such a climate, the Congress risks being tethered to dissatisfaction that is not of its own making but becomes its burden nonetheless.

There is also a deeper historical wound that lingers in the collective memory of your party. The assassination of your father, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, remains one of the darkest chapters in India’s political history. The controversies and allegations that surrounded the political atmosphere of that era, including questions about the roles and responses of regional actors, continue to cast a shadow. Whether fair or not, the emotional and symbolic weight of that tragedy still shapes perceptions. Aligning indefinitely with a party whose past intersects painfully with your own history sends a message that many Congress supporters struggle to reconcile.

Tamil Nadu today is witnessing the rise of new political energy, particularly among the youth who are searching for alternatives that feel culturally rooted yet forward looking. The emergence of the TVK lead by Thalapathy  Vijay has gathered that sentiment with surprising force. This is not merely about celebrity or novelty. It is about momentum, language, and a generational shift that traditional parties often fail to anticipate. Joining hands with such a force would not be an act of desperation. It would be a calculated realignment that acknowledges changing political currents.

A strategic partnership with the TVK could extend benefits beyond Tamil Nadu. Southern India, with its diverse yet interconnected political psyche, responds to signals of adaptability and renewal. A bold realignment here would reverberate across neighbouring states, presenting the Congress not as a relic negotiating survival but as a national party willing to evolve. Politics rewards those who recognise when alliances strengthen identity and when they dilute it.

Mr. Gandhi, the people of Tamil Nadu still look at you with a measure of trust that many leaders would envy. That trust, however, is not immune to erosion. Use it while it breathes. Read the signs while they are still legible. The electorate here is neither naïve nor forgetful. It has been disappointed before, yet it remains open to persuasion when conviction is visible.

History offers few second chances, and politics even fewer. The longer the Congress remains entangled in arrangements that blunt its voice, the harder it becomes to reclaim authenticity. Decisive movement now could redefine perception. Hesitation could cement decline.

For the Congress in Tamil Nadu, the alliance that once seemed convenient now appears constricting. The DMK has been, and will remain, a curse to the Congress party unless you choose otherwise.

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What is knowing GOD/YESHUA???

All through the Bible, we see Elohim, asking us to know Him intimately…

What is knowing Him exactly?

Do we know Him that well?

I am the good shepherd, I know my own, and my own know me, John 10:14

Here’s a little piece of audio that explains it all. Do listen along and share your comment below.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/77m9ZInneFnkbodH6AF3cF?si=ptZQ2PRfT3mSkVvDdD7sgwShalom

A letter to the President of India

Dear Mr President  

  We the youths of Tamil Nadu write to you with a deep sense of insecurity accentuated of the recent occurrence… It’s every Indian’s fate to strive for his/her life here. Right from education, we strive for employment, for our Basic rights and what not… And now with the sequence of furtive actions which has led to the demise of Dr Jayalalitha, a potent administrator who hates revealing her ill-health ever, we indeed feel strangled. If money, amidst demonetisation could stretch this long and eclipse truth and take charge, we are ready to offer our hard earned minimal pay to make our government perform… It is indeed disheartening to see our nation’s legacy going into pieces. We are bearing our hearts to you through this letter. We want you to seek transparency and convict the convicts if any; before they beat a hasty retreat… We do hope that our voices would be heard.

 

In anticipation of your response

Youths of Tamil Nadu

Was asked to write a wedding lyric

Oh… My Lady… My Love….

Thou art my oyster’s pearl
Thou art my peace at times of whirl

​My Lady… My love…

You looked; the lands lent laurels unto me
You murmured, the mounts marched mirthfully behind
You spoke; every speck on space celebrated it
You loved… my life extended beyond mortality

My Lady …. My love…

As flutes of fairies flourish…
Blessings by both black and grey
Bower the dias
Let our heart’s merge in marriage
And there shall emerge a fresh, fruitful life…!!!

“Othering” and it’s psychosocial aspects

PREFACE
 
The essence of this project is to analyse the novel When Memory Dies by Dr. Sivanandan by applying the psychosocial concept of the ‘other’ on it. The prime objective of the work is to revive the dying memories of every suffering soul in Sri Lanka. Beginning with the initial classification of mankind as slaves and masters the paper attempts to trace the travel of the concept from the state of invisibility to visibility. By the term ‘invisibility’, it examines the psychological provocations within the people of Sri Lanka to behave against one another. And by the term ‘visibility’ it juxtaposes all the social cultural behaviour of the people belonging to both the ethnic groups, separately. It mainly focuses and captures the palpitation of the ‘othered’ Tamils from the early history till the present. It also carefully sorts out the historical events and the facts that had made the Sinhalese perceive the Tamil minorities as the ‘other’.  

                INTRODUCTION
 
Soon after the inheritance of man into the world, knowingly or unknowingly, one mastered the other and the other served the master. This classification was taught to man by nobody, but by himself. Ultimately, this classification abscinds mankind into two groups. When one dominates, the other group concedes itself to be dominated. It depends upon every man’s understanding to identify himself either with the group that dominates or with the group that submits.
 
This classification remained harmless till man received the contemporary civilization. Man’s intensified urge to grow politically, economically and intellectually powerful, simultaneously grew this classification into stratification. Further, as stratification expanded its empire, groups started excluding one another resulting in social exclusion. Department of International Development (DFID) defines social exclusion as “a process by which certain groups are systematically disadvantaged because they are discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, caste, descent, gender, age, disability, HIV status, migrant status or where they live” (Reducing Poverty by Tackling Social Exclusion: A DFID Policy Paper 3).
 
The aspect that figures out the basis of this classification in man is nothing, but the concept of the ‘other’ introduced by the Sociologist Emmanuel Levinasand popularized by Edward Said. In order to understand this sociological explanation of the concept, a psychological study on the social animal was required. This requirement was fulfilled by Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud. 
 
 
This simple term, the ‘other’ has a complex meaning in post-colonial era. ‘Otherness’ is a condition of difference that is imposed on another group. To put it simply, ‘othering’ is a form of social exclusion of a particular group by the most powerful group. This particular group may belong to a particular race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion etc. It sought to bring about negative impacts ranging from labelling to eradication of that particular ‘other’. According to Mackey, the conception of the ‘other’ is more to verb than a noun.
 
         Famous psycho-analyst Freud, says that unconsciousness represents the ‘other’. Every ‘I’ has an ‘other’ within itself unconsciously representing itself. According to Jacques Lacan, a child’s first enemy is its image, which is the ‘other’. Hence, the theory of ‘othering’ emerges even at the childhood. But, it is not made explicit until the child grows. When the child grows, it starts to view its surroundings and people differently. When this happens classification begins. It is at this stage, the ‘othering’ in a child gets transformed and gets passed to another. Which means, the grown child no longer sees itself as the ‘other’, but the different as the ‘other’. A. Sivanandan’s When Memory dies, is deeply entangled with the second part of Lacan’sconcept.
 
         The process of ‘othering’ and its consequences are indeed experimented in reality in the land of Sri Lanka. For considerable years the world has been witnessingthe state of varied conflicts between the Sinhalese and the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Ambalavaner Sivanandan, a Sri Lankan Tamil was born on 20 December 1923, in Colombo. He is a Sri Lankan novelist, and director of the Institute of Race Relations, a London-based independent educational charity. His first novel, When Memory Dies, won the 1998 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the Best First Book category for Europe and South Asia and the Sagittarius Prize. He is the son of Mr. Ambalavaner, a worker in the postal system who came from the village of Sandilipay in Jaffna in the north of the island. Sivanandan was educated at St. Joseph’s College, Colombo, where he was taught by J. P. de Fonseka, who inspired him with a love of the English language alongside his native Tamil. He later went on to study at the University of Ceylon, graduating in Economics in 1945. He went on to teach in the Ceylon “Hill Country” and then worked for the Bank of Ceylon, where he became one of the first “native” bank managers.
 
         During the late 1950s, Sivanandan started his career in London as a clerk and then, moved to be a librarian in Middlesex libraries. He worked variously in public libraries, for the Colonial Office library and in 1964 was appointed as the chief librarian at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in central London. The library on race relations built up by Sivanandan was, moved to the University of Warwick Library in 2006, where it is known as the “Sivanandan Collection”. In 1974, he was selected to be the editor of the IRR’s journal Race, which was renamed Race & Class. 
         
         Sivanandan’s books: Race and Resistance: the IRR story, Different Hunger: writings on black resistance, Communities of Resistance: writings on black struggles for socialism, When Memory Dies (a novel) and Where the Dance Is (short stories).
      
Sivanadan’s Articles (1960s to 2000s): “The Ceylon scene”, “Fanon: the violence of the violated”, “White racism and black”, “A farewell to liberalism”, “The politics of language 3: Ceylon, an essay in interpretation”, “Culture and identity”, “Revolt of the Natives”, “Skin: a one-act play”, “Report from Sri Lanka, August 1977”, “Sri Lanka: uses of racism”, “Sri Lanka: racism and the politics of underdevelopment”, “RAT and the degradation of black struggle”, 
 
“In the castle of their skin”, “The sentence of racism”, “Britain’s Gulags”, “The enigma of the colonised: reflections on Naipaul’s arrival”, “Whatever happened to imperialism?”, “Black struggles against racism”, “Letter to God”, “The rise and fall of institutional racism” and so on.
 
        This Sri Lankan Tamil moved to Britain after witnessing the plight of the Tamils in Sri Lanka during the 1950s. Having faced the ethnic riots in early 1958, Sivanandan has boldly attempted to pen down the reality using imaginary characters in his novel with regard to the concept, to revive the dying memories of the world regarding every suffering soul in Sri Lanka. The author’s segregation of the novel into three parts has optimally done its job of projecting the segregation within the ethnic groups. The novel not only traces the social history of Sri Lanka, but also the history of the conflict. By the history of the conflict he thoughtfully attempts to sketch the deterioration of the relationship between the Tamils and the Sinhalese from the period of colonization till the present.
 
Sivanandan’s book is a vivid telling of three generations of a Sri Lankan Tamil family (Sahadevan, the father, Rajan, the son, Vijay, the grandson) and of the disintegration of ethnic harmony on the island. Having fled Sri Lanka after the 1956 riots Sivanandan’s novel is remarkably even-handed and captures the humanity on both sides. Sri Lanka’s post-colonial history is one of failed expectations and avoidable disasters. The tragedy of the estrangement between some of the key Sinhalese and Tamil characters in the novel is all the more poignant considering that Sinhalese nationalism and Tamil Eelamnationalism are painfully intertwined. During the period of colonization, Sri Lanka’s political administration was under the control of the Britishers. The westerners spread their influences through language and ideology. “English” was the main language. Those with a good understanding of the language and the ideologies of the British were put into administration irrespective of their race and ethnicity. Fortunately or unfortunately, the Tamils did well and got seats in administration. In this situation not only the colonizers were looked as a threat, but, the intellectual Tamil minorities were also confronted as a threat by the Sinhalese. Before colonization, the Sinhalese had no chance to let out their consideration of the Tamils as the ‘other’ because of the natural submission of the minorities. But, once when the British’s rule proved that the Tamils are intellectually sound than the Sinhalese, the invisible sense of the ‘otherness’ peeps out to be visible. However, the Sinhalese forced the concept to be invisible till they could receive liberation which could be possible only with the unity of the ethnic groups.
 
The second part of the novel begins with the end of British colonization and the beginning of the conflict between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. It is from here, the novel starts to depict the intensifying moment of the concept. When the first part of the novel transports the sense of ‘otherness’ from the state of unconsciousness to consciousness, the second part further brings it from, the consciousness to the explicit state. As the Sinhalese, the dominant group is free to suppress the ‘othered’ other group, to its original state, they start to discriminate the minorities by prohibiting them from improving themselves academically, politically and economically. Since, the aspect of language plays a major role, the Sinhalese attempt to employ the “Sinhala Only” policy which would possibly block the growth of the ‘other’. The author makes us travel along with Rajan, to confront every aspect of discrimination of the ‘othered’ minorities. 
 
 
The third and the final part of the novel juxtaposes the violent outburst of the ‘othered’ Tamils. Among the three parts, the third appeals stronger to the reader because of its exact portrayal of the present. The ‘other’ that is pushed to the margin, to be excluded from the nation tries to get in through negotiation in the beginning. Later, as the situation prolongs to be unbearable, as an insect that bites out of fear to escape, the ‘othered’ group ends up by employing violence to include themselves in their native land. The roles of the armies play a vital role in this course. The third part also intensifies the plight of the character Vijay who struggles between his identity as a Tamil as well as a Sinhalee. Being born to a Sinhalee father and brought up by a Tamil father, Vijay gets stuck in the middle. At the crucial stage of not only executing the Tamils but also all those Sinhalese supporters of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, Vijay had to live all his life in fear and insecurity. Sivanandan has captured the contemporary Sri Lanka’s tension in the final part thereby announcing the pitiable state of the ‘othered’ Tamils to the world. Thus, this victimized author’s depiction of the state of his ethnic group in relation to the concept of the ‘other’ will be analysed in the chapters that follow.

My thoughts on a terrific tale…

Jeffrey Archer and his book “Mightier Than The Sword”      

   Do you feel you are nothing? Then come on this is the time for you to make millions… I am not talking mystery rather I’m talking about a living history… At 34 when he was left with nothing more than a penny he didn’t sit still instead this magician just conflated his dejection with his mother tongue and started narrating awing tales to the world. All of a sudden from London his books reached all the corners of the globe… The man who was expected to get vanished into thin air, florished with flying colours just by his unique way of telling stories… You shall laugh, sob, get thrilled and fascinated at the same time with his books. You will get thrilled but not as thrilled when reading a book by Sidney Sheldon, he would meet all your expectations and feed all your senses with his sumptuous spread of elements… You will not encounter an unbelievable story moreover you could rather guess the twists in his tales but still you will never put your book down until you have read the last page. More than anything what captivates his readers is his amazing guts to pronounce the forbidden history of all nations irrespective of its consequences… His pen would make you move with delight into a great nation’s dangerous background even without realising it. such would be the simplicity of his plot. 
  Now coming to The Clifton Chronicles. As the name itself evokes, the series is a collection of chronological happenings in the characters named Harry Clifton, Emma Clifton and Giles Barrington. Beginning from the childhood friendship of Harry and Giles, The story then takes a lovely turn with a blooming relationship of Harry and Emma. Harry, who is introduced to be a docker’s son terms out to be a sincere husband, an adorable father and beyond everything he reminds to be a faithful friend throughout. As the tale travels Harry establishes himself as a prolific writer. On the other hand Emma, a graciously stunning and a hard-nosed Business woman never ceases to inspire the readers. Then comes Sir Giles Barrington Who gains scores for his sensible political role. The tail mainly revolves around these three main characters. With their Love and friendship being continuously tested by plans of secrecy and betrayal carefully executed by their opposite team namely Major Alex Fisher and Lady Virginia. Apart from these emotional conflicts, the story also puts forth an amazing sequence of boardroom power tensions, political struggle and terrorism. 
    “Mightier than The Sword” is the fifth book of this binding saga. With a bomb which is about to blast in a couple of minutes, Archer puts his readers under palpitation even as the book begins… Then the book takes us into a melodious experience of love through Sebastian Clifton and Samantha. This gentle flow of the tail all of a sudden flies to Russia and brings in a character called Anatoly Babakov who is being imprisoned for trying to reveal the forbidden history of his nation and its ruler through his book. With a mission of retrieving Babakov’s book in order to reveal its contents to the world our author Harry Clifton reaches Russia but unfortunately he gets caught and ends up in jail… The plot’s simultaneous shifts from England to Russia depicting the courtroom dramas are simply excellent… If someone reads this book without reading the other four i’m sure that Jeffrey archer would become the reader’s favourite author and mightier than the sword shall turn out to be the reader’s favourite book ever…

   In short “Mightier Than The Sword” has indeed proved its might…

My first lines when I was 16…

The Power of a Pat

Hey Look!

The frustrated soul freshens again
The gloomy eyes bloom as before
The tumblin mind travels in tranquility
The puzzled thoughts pump up with confidence.
The needled heart hearkens with happiness
Yes! All these,
Triumphs of a touch!
A sudden simple suffusing touch!
Lasts for few seconds

But vibrates till
Vitality energises
Meaning merges
Action activates
Life liberates
Become noble souls
By giving a pat
And feel ‘the power of a pat…!!!