Hope And A Cup Of Coffee

Hope And A Cup Of Coffee

Sometimes I feel  that this madness just keeps on increasing. Like the background music of my life is building up to this great crescendo except that you cant tell if it’s gonna change back to a major scale after that, and if it does, maybe it will lapse back to the relative minor. Sometimes I want to run […]

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Lonely…

Lonely…

Loneliness spurts forth, Spilling over the brim Discontent bubbling underneath the surface. Hazy lines merging – cracked lines creeping closer. Quiet, its that calm now, Before the beginning of the battle –  shamefacedly lost. Loneliness spurts forth In a room dancing with people… Heads flitting by, Limbs flailing past, Conversation thick – loneliness spurts forth. […]

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Alone…

Alone…

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. “Yes! Yes! “ But the eyes say something else. I recall Kaifi Azmi’s poem. […]

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Release…

Release…

The living room vibrated with some unseen, leashed emotions. The moment he entered he could sense the shift in atmosphere. After a day well spent with his friends he was in a mood to watch some sports on TV, have some late dinner, check his emails and go to sleep. But the sudden tingling at […]

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For Him…

For Him…

To Love. To  lose. And  to never love again is a sickening feeling. She had trusted herself, built a wall around her  nobody would penetrate, yet it had happened. Probably one sided as she did not know his feelings for her. He said he loved her ….as a friend.  An afterthought she would have never […]

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Finding Love..

Finding Love..

Until we cross over to the other side, we all belong to that lost group of people that are looking for real love. The heart-wrenching, gut-moving, mind-numbing sense of true belonging, perhaps not unconditional, like the Creator has for the Created, but close nevertheless. The kind that wants to live forever because you found the […]

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The Last Mile…

The Last Mile…

Time heals all wounds, it also wounds all heals. Patience fills the thin gap between cure and disease.  Like a barbed wire, Time entangles the feet… Digging into the flesh. Biting the heels. It won’t let you run. Can we escape to redemption? Maybe. Time heals all wounds only if you break free from the shackles and run. Run […]

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Alone In The City

Alone In The City

Stories of starvation deaths that appear in newspapers usually emerge from severely malnourished, poorer parts of our country, places remote, where the PDS has all but failed. Not from cities. And so the story of the two Bahl sisters  found in a starving, very disturbed state in their Noida home was shocking and also sounded terribly […]

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