UnPeopling

Friendship Day some twenty years back. Pa got me this dress during our trip to Goa in February 2002. Mom objected, but she objected to everything in her attempt to keep me down to earth. I think she succeeded some bit in the long run. But back then her success ratio was negligible. I would...

Seeking My Inner Buddha

In that moment of icy despair, when the soul lay bare The mind was enthralled as the illusive veil before the eyes was torn away. The veil had condemned and ostracized, all that was a part of my being And I was looking westward always waiting for the sun to set and let a new...

But It Is Just A Night!

Death lingers in the air. Every second phone call is heart crunching. Sometimes I feel may be this is Kal Yug, the actual time for death and devastation. And the cause had to be man! Sometimes I feel it is nature doing its balancing act but then when I see the good people actually losing...

The Songs That Linger

Rust stains the iron trunk cover that once adorned embroidered cherry blossoms hanging from each corner. The faint lavender fragrance that once lingered in the air is now lost to the moldy smell that hangs around like the dead. The four poster bed no longer creaks like the old woman who once rested on its...

Meera, Not Radha (Narcissist’s Lover)

It lingers... The words may be silent but the music, the rhythm and the shiver lingers with your song. Our song, you had said. I whispered the words into your ears and you created sheer poetry out of those stupid lines I mumbled. “Shayari... Ahem!” I laughed. “Ghazal,” you said. “That is what you are...

2020 – The Undoing

This is not a review of the currently trending series on Hotstar. My capacity to write reviews is limited and I do not intend to tread that path. This is about 2020 - The Year of the Undoing! 2020 undid a lot of things. It has shaken us, unraveled us, surprised us and to an...

Bond, The Name is James Bond

Happy James Bond Day people. This is a die hard fan calling out into the universe. Yes, there is a Global James Bond Day and it is today 5th October. It goes back to the release of the first Bond movie Dr. No in 1962 on this day that year. But the official day wasn't...

Autumn Evenings – A Haibun

The rains have stopped though the humidity continues to persist. Sunrise no longer spreads like neon light into the dawn. Dry winds carry a dusty haze across the horizon. The cacophony of the parrots declares unrest perched high upon the ledge of the twenty-fifth floor. Pigeons silently tread into the silver bill’s bird feeder, pecking...

Drenched Dark Morning

It is a heavy downpour today. The rain floats in the air even inside the room. Tiny droplets of rain touch the skin and vanish as I stand near the balcony door. The visibility is obscured. Even the pair of laughing doves sit in silence watching the sky take over. The usual foray of vision...

Into the Silence

It is the morning after rains. The sky shades more blue than yesterday when the cumulonimbus gathered over my head like a crown and I just wanted to reach out and touch it. How would this cloud feel? What amused me was how silently the clouds wafted from the horizon towards our sky without a...