Memory…

Memory…

Every year when I see the saree, it seems to disintegrate a little bit more – much like a memory of a marriage. Thread by thread, zari flower by zari flower. Ma was always reticent about the story behind her wedding saree . And each year, I take it out once to remind myself what it […]

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The Universe Owes Her That Much

The Universe Owes Her That Much

  Often when my auto whizzes past a school campus on Bangalore’s Hosur Road, I can smell the breezy trees and instantly feel the pine and fir fragrance of Palampur flooding my senses. Palampur was my happy place as a teenager because a favourite aunt lived here, in a house by a pine hill overlooking the craggy Dhauladhar range. […]

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Unknot Your Life

Unknot Your Life

It’s no secret, how over the course of time, we tend to do things we don’t want to, loved people who didn’t love us back, got betrayed, hurt, wounded, until the heart was shredded apart…all of these, making small knots on the fabric of our soul, serving us as reminders…reminders so that we never let […]

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Remembering..

Remembering..

  Let your voice for once, listen to your feelings, For words and tears wait for none, Let those eyes be as silent, Else they might voice your bitter heart Yes I remember those sleepless nights, And those lamps, lit with your memories, the black crisp petals are still fresh, I can still smell the […]

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Memory..

Memory..

The needle point of  pain is fire and ice it’s the knowing and the not knowing the near and the far presence and absence the found and the lost A pain both old and young that knows how to smile at itself and be petulant. It is home in the cozy grooves of the heart. […]

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The Snatch Of A Memory

The Snatch Of A Memory

He rode quietly, feeling the wind on his face, feeling her snuggling up to him, his pillion rider wife. The song he had caught off the radio at a snacks store still auto-played in his head. 11 children, all in their khaki shorts, scratches healing on their rugged knees, scuttling between lanes with bats on […]

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Memory…

Memory…

Memory is nothing but a compound a distillation an essence a coming together seeping together staying together of everything that the eyes drank the skin tasted the breath sang the soul heard and never forgot and that is why when breeze mixes with rain you suddenly smell pine needles and distant snow and damp roses […]

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What Catches You?

What Catches You?

I always thought I was a visual person. That sights would remind me of places, of people. Turns out, I was wrong. That day, when I caught a whiff of a certain face wash, I felt like I was back in my hostel in Bangalore. Because I used it then. So I closed my eyes […]

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Pink

Pink

Prettiness and peaches. Suffolk homes. Salmon returning to breed. Scallops and kabibe shells. Baby feet. Frosted lipstick. Rashes and raspberries. Onions and radishes, Cadillacs and corals Jordan’s sand art bottles and Bahamas’ beaches Sheer silk, satin pyjamas and flowerbeds of phlox Marshmallows and candy treats The rudeness of being jobless and beat Flamingos and Floyd […]

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In The Light Of Memory

In The Light Of Memory

As I am growing older, festivals are not so much about looking forward to something as they are about looking back. Being nostalgic and turning into an uncle who’s always remembering the past. Last month I was invited to inaugurate a Durga Puja. The organizers asked me to speak a few lines. They must have […]

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