April 18, 2026

In which I proclaim the completion of one task, and the beginning of another

Since I wrote the last entry here, I have gone through turbulent times, yet from these days, a new concentration has taken root in my mind and soul. I must waste no more time. For all time is a gift.

Late last year I finally finished my Doctoral Thesis. Hopefully soon I will have my Doctorate, and thereafter I will be able to share more on what it is that I have done. Leaving the world to judge the rest

I have spent a good part of a decade devoted to my work. It was rewarding. But it also implied the necessity of putting off many other things I wished to do. The rest of my life, whatever days are written for me, are offered to whatever the spirit wishes that by my hands needs to be done.

I spend most of days reading, writing or rebuilding my mind and body. Among the endeavours I had haltingly commenced some time ago was a prose interpretation of Rattan Singh Bhangu’s Gur Panth Prakash. That was done. Substantially. But I wished to do something more.

So. I have been willed into attempting a poetic interpretation. Of which I have commenced the first few verses, even as I also work on what I envision to be an extensive, perhaps multivolume study on the Sarkar-i-Khalsa, and a few dramatic dialogues based on the era and its heroes. Among other things of course. (I recently discovered a 90,000 word manuscript I was writing during my college days in Pune; from those ancient times, before the fall, I too have some tales to tell. Someday.)

Here are the first few verses of my Annals of the Rise of the Khalsa, still in the roughest, but also perhaps purest of forms.