It happens. Let it. Or don’t. It matters. Maybe not. Run. Rest. Hide. Find. Stay. Go. Stop. Start. Hold on. Let Go. Life is now. Or maybe never.
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Do You Know?
Show me your soul.. how much of it is yours? How much borrowed? Are you more than just pieces of steel, polished to a glint? Cold and invincible? Or do you live hurt melt pulse breathe? Does you life belong to you? Are you together alone whole splintered? Are you no one else but you? […]
The Book Of Jobs…
Trust is a frightening thing to dive into. It is far easier to stay in fear. In a state of indecision, it is far easier to believe someone else’s version of our life than to believe in the small voice that tells us from within, “Its okay. Just jump into the abyss.” I don’t understand […]
A Life Of Freedom
What is freedom? Is it a state-of-mind? A physical, social or personal reality? A perception that can be manipulated? On Independence Day, I asked some of the writers and readers of Unboxed Writers what their idea of freedom was. For some it was an intensely personal state-of-being. For others, it was a hard-won right to […]
Freedom Is…
Freedom is… Knowing we will all drown someday but being at peace with drowning before the next minute arrives Feeling the fear but looking it in the eye anyway Thinking you’ll never make it but taking that first step nonetheless Sensing that you’re way out of your depth but trusting the water and your body’s […]
Time Out Of Time
It is not dice, its my life. Just can’t play autumn and scatter my little self. Who will gather me back in my bag of life? Time rushes, gushes and changes. Balm the wounds, bandage the pain. While the world thunders on, catch the silence of soul, steal a few hours from the clock and […]
Life Before Death
I saw a young boy apply sudden breaks to his bicycle as it was about to run over the corpse of a crow. Perhaps the bird had tried to fly prematurely and had met with an accident. A question suddenly popped in my head– Why did the young boy consciously prevent his bicycle from running over […]
Josefina Baez: Simply In The Flow
Power can be mellow, vulnerable, beautiful. And yet ripple with invincibility in the face of whatever life can throw at you. That is what actor, writer, director of Ay Ombe theatre and educator Josefina Baez embodies. The capacity to always be open to bliss and pain, learning and teaching, silence and celebration, spirituality and psychology, the idea of ethnicity […]
Waiting To Live…
In her dreams, Innayat always woke up to the enchanting and re-assuring sound of the morning azaan, and opened the windows, which her nani would slyly shut after she had slept. The morning breeze would bring with it, freshness and a whiff of roses, the pine trees, the first batch of Kashmiri rotis being baked […]
The Family Hotel-Part 7
Acclaimed author of The Dollmakers’ Island, Anu Kumar brings a treat for the readers of Unboxed Writers in the form of an unpublished novella that will be carried in nine parts. Here is a brief introduction. Three generations of a family have maintained a hotel that suddenly finds itself close to a new boundary line when India and Pakistan are partitioned. And as guests become […]
A Sunlit Life
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? WH Davies A friend of mine asked me once whether I had noticed the new park adjacent to my office. I replied in the negative. She snapped back, “But it has been there for a month now. You must […]
All That Remains…
“Krish be careful with that skateboard!” shouted my husband Sunil from the living room. Krish is five and already a little athlete but Sunil is an over-protective father. We have fought many times over this. Somehow Krish always manages to reassure his father that he will be safe though I cannot seem to talk Sunil out of his […]