Satish Sharma

Jan 12, 2025 | ahmedabadmirror.com | Satish Sharma

The aim of all art is to delight the viewer by presenting the reality truthfully and beauteously and all art forms have an element of storytelling. Fiction writing has more of it. So, the challenge before the writer is: how to tell the story so convincingly that the reader relates it to herself and her life. It gives birth to styles of expression which when adopted by many artists/writers, become movements.

Dec 9, 2024 | ahmedabadmirror.com | Satish Sharma

Life and liberty are nature-endowed and dear to all sentient beings. However, when asked to choose between the two, the few who choose liberty know that the choice is not between one and the other but between both and neither. Marie-Medeleine Riffaud resistance fighter, war reporter and poet was among those few. Her vast and richly meaningful lifecan fill many volumes but here one can touch only its broad contours.   She was 19, when she escaped execution by a German firing squad narrowly.

Dec 2, 2024 | ahmedabadmirror.com | Satish Sharma

The young Army Captain was as irreverent of his bosses as most young captains are. However, he was equally clear about why he had been sent with his company of 5 Gurkha battalion, to occupy the Longro La Ridge on the China border overlooking the Sumdorong Chu pasture in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh.   So, when the Chinese army came claiming the ridge, he asked them to buzz off. When they still advanced, he had a burst of Light Machine Gun fired as a warning.

Nov 25, 2024 | ahmedabadmirror.com | Satish Sharma

I came into this world of births and deaths/And found the true Self by mind-light/No one will die for me, nor I for anyone/How wonderful to die! How wonderful to live”, said the 14-century saint-poet Lalleshwari, popularly known as Lalla or Lal Ded (granny Lal) who, as a shaivite yogini, traversed Kashmir semi-nude, singing and dancing in spiritual ecstasy.

Nov 18, 2024 | ahmedabadmirror.com | Satish Sharma

Lara was the purest being in the world…She moved with a silent grace, and everything about her…was fitting and harmonious…She does not wish to please or look beautiful…It’s as though she were punishing herself for being lovely.  But this proud hostility to herself makes her more attractive than ever”, wrote Boris Pasternak of Lara in Doctor Zhivago.