27 Likes and 10 Comments …not good enough! Logged in again after an hour- 60 Likes and 20 Comments….now it seems impressive! My new yellow shoes seem to have finally made an impression- it was worth the price.
What next?
I visit ...Read More
In Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, the protagonist Karan is an outsider who wants to make Bombay his home. How he sees Bombay through his camera lens is what forms the primary plot of the story. The narrative weaves together ...Read More
In the beginning
there was the jungle
with dark trees
grinding the earth
with their vengeful roots
and sudden fires
that even when they were too spent
to rage
hissed vengefully
from ashes.
Then a path broke free of the
tangled fear
and pain
and found itself
and the light.
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Then there was nothingness..
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And then ...Read More
I don't know..
It is just this nebulous, breathy, wispy thought
no, not even a thought
for thought has contours
and edges
and a pulse..
this is not even that..
just smoke
of Ghalib's aah
Maybe something
even more undefined
just the beginning of a thought
too afraid to know itself
or to take ...Read More
Nothing speaks to me more than a pine tree
and its misty breath
and a sunflower
and its fresh scrubbed face of hope
and that moment in time
when the evening is a pale rose
with its petals around everything
even the thought that it is not ...Read More
They say that if you make the mistake of venturing into the Himalayas even once you are doomed. Because they keep calling you back. Neither pictures, nor words can capture the magnificence of those mesmerising bugyals and towering peaks whose beauty ...Read More
Dusk had fallen when short and stocky Lt Col Rajnish Behl, Sena Medal, entered the old stone building with sweeping arches and green ivy climbing up fading brick walls. It used to be a school in British times but was now ...Read More
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They are everywhere. These new zombie-like creatures, BlackBerrys in hand, earphones in their ears, eyes on the screen and head in the clouds. We have now reached a stage where chalkboards and pens are being replaced with touchscreens and styluses; ...Read More
Her eyes gleamed brighter than the pretty gold ring shining on her frail finger. She stared at it in shock and awe, examining her finger from different angles and muttering in utter excitement, “This is for me didi? Really! This ...Read More
There are dozens of places on this planet which stake claim to the coveted appellation ‘Heaven on Earth’. We even have one in the midst of all the so called squalor in India – Kashmir. But this is not a ...Read More
"Main keh raha hoon, main keh raha hoon, main keh raha hoon!" Everytime I watch a wannabe film on adult relationships..I remember this Kulbhushan Kharbanda (he is on the phone with his neurotic actress girl friend who wants to know ...Read More
Yes Mubarak Begum is around. And no, she isn’t doing well. I know no one asked but it's one of those moments in life when a question need not precede the answer.
A few years ago, a dusty drive to Behram ...Read More
