I am fishing for the right quote by Manto to begin this write-up. As I unearth some old books from my college days, I realise that Manto is not someone, who can be put away between the pages of history ...Read More
Difficult to say sperm (or sparm - as the good Doctor Chadda (Annu Kapoor in an err.. seminal performance) pronounces it), without the mind travelling to where it comes from. All right, I picked up that line somewhere. Yet, here is ...Read More
Two people met, became friends (not sure when love happened) and decided to get hitched for the better. Like any other inter-caste marriage, this Assamese-Bengali alliance also went through a lot of high drama before it could culminate into ...Read More
He raises his eyebrow. Flicks a tear off his sculpted, strikingly beautiful face. Leans forward. Cups his chin. He is not Oprah but we could be wrong. Satyamev Jayate is a well-intentioned show. It has got one thing right. The ...Read More
A few days back I found a petition forwarded by Richard Loitam's parents in my inbox. The same Richard who was beaten brutally to death a few nights ago in a reputed Bangalore college. A few months in a college ...Read More
I am in a crowd and yet alone. Looking around at people conversing, laughing, I wonder. Do they also feel the same way as I do? A friend shakes me from my stupor and asks, "Hey! All well?"
The same answer. ...Read More
Sometimes those who watch you
go by..
have no idea
about your journey
the roads you have taken to get here
they only see
who you are now
or think they do
and
measure your human weight
your life
your work
in the palm of their hand
they know nothing
because
beneath the obvious surface
of who ...Read More
The roots of a gulmohar..
with hungry, splayed fingers
clutch the earth
to draw all its passion
eager lust
crimson joy
life blood
life surge
to pour it all back
into a million, flaming hearts
beating back to the world
unconquerable love
that covers the earth with warm, red kisses
and fades..leaving behind ...Read More
An unfinished day..
half baked.
incomplete.
loudly, rudely voiced.
untidy.
spilling...
unconvincing truths..
just like a..
soul expelled from its skin
And now
just a moment
a deep breath
and forgiveness
and insight
that even when
you can't draw a straight line
on paper
you can in your head
and that is where
it begins
and ends
does it not? Read More
Three years ago, you did not know you would be here reading these words. Three years ago, you did not know the name that would make things go round in your life. Three years ago, all the wrong things mattered. ...Read More
I was packing a lunch box. A day back. And the vegetable that I had cooked and was stuffing into the air-tight tiffin box was spinach.
Now we all know how volatile the nutrients in a leafy vegetable are. So I ...Read More
