curls
the peacocks cry at this hour outside, i am reminded of a noon dreama noon dream in which a boy took umbrage in his lover's absence and shared himself with...
on watching The Lunchbox 🔁
and The Lunchbox watching me as I'm quietly mesmerized, even seduced, by it each time
`slow `ephemeral `burn
memory is such a fickle twit. i go back to the time when i had sat with my uncles and aunts on a platform at the charbagh railway station and waited for god...
madubala ~k a L
a child born to a family shorn of its love. a child born in february to a mother who was not prepared to birth her. a child whose mother's middle name is...
tincture 💫✨
[05:51, 1/30/2018] +91 0: “Detachment,” writes May Sarton, “must be cultivated against the longing to be perfectly open and receptive.”[06:33, 1/30/2018] +91...
rem
In this context, here's a dream from the night I read the critical commentary, note the "commentary" and not the text, of Dario Fo's play, Accidental Death...
busybazar
A banjaran sits in one corner of the bazar with her three children. Her head half covered with her pallu, she darts looks at everyone who passes by her....
a twig in the hair
they say "you're going home, are you excited?" i smile, nod, even utter a word here and there. but my mind, unable to comprehend the bizzareness of this...
tulsi
". I want to be left alone to my devices. I want to stare at the moths that come and go through the door. I want to put my legs against the wall and scratch...
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A room, another seasonA house, another countryA city, my ambitionThat city, your home
solitaire seventies sane-love
this small poemthat i write here sitting from office in Delhi, reading these words rising out like embers from a near-dead firewhat do i say to you,i a...
the solitary weeper
ruefully mulling over the loss of some clog that morning in the corner keeping to itself, the flow continues collecting shadows and reflections a bird...
2009, kashyap and ors.
I remember watching Dev.D in Wave cinemas Lucknow exactly five days after I'd turned 18. It was a good movie month/couple of months. On my birthday I had...
coke float and limericks
I woke up well before the crack of today’s dawn. An arranged pickup car with a driver arrived at my doorstep. “Vannakkam madame” “Hello sir” I didn’t bother...
incomplete work
my friend committed suicide by drinking herself to deathever feel like being shot in the chest when you are wide awake listening to pink floyd's timethis...
its seven degrees
its winters outside and what do i do do i roast a potato or warm my hands do i read a book or make tea do i drink wine or collude warm water with rum will...
a photograph, a note, a camera, a street
My phone The camera, the front view camera is back It’s almost as if I have eyesight back again After almost three full months, I got the callow front camera...
s a f e z o ne
They languor in the everyday sun in their eyesConstantly talking with their half-shut eyesThey observe, absorb but do not reportAlmost jumping lazily on...
i name her aarzoo
There’s a very cute girl right now in the metro. Right across from me. She must be around 14-15 years old. Tiny. Thin. Like a fresh tendril, a tulip flower....
new year, cheer
Lets continue not thinking.Let’s continue talking about "important" things and snoring away into the new days and nights into itLet’s carry on in the defense...
