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Sand in my shoes...

It was the most perfect morning ever. I opened my eyes and looked outside far beyond the white veil of the curtain adorning our hotel room and all I could see was palm trees – two tall ones at an angle on either side of the huge window and a whole lot of them in the distance far ahead.

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Dhoop KInaray

raat yun dil mein teri khoyi hui yaad aayi,
jaise veeraane mein chupke se bahaar aa jaye,
jaise sehraaoN mein haulay se chale baad-e-naseem,
jaise beemaar ko be-wajh qaraar aa jaaye

This is a ghazal by Nayyara Noor, which always puts me in a somber mood, no matter where I am or what I’m doing. I heard it long back in a very old Pakistani play called Dhoop Kinaray which I first saw when I was 15 or 16. I’ve grown up a lot on Pakistani influence in my household. Being from Punjab, very close to Amritsar, we used to catch Pakistani channels on our TV every now and then. Read more


Sweet compulsion

To closures..

I listened hard to the rain beating outside my window pane last night…trying to make sense of the sudden emptiness that I had engulfed myself in, since a few days. As the rain washed down the window and the roof top, I remembered a similar night long back - a night when it was raining fearlessly too and I had immersed myself completely to the sound of acoustic guitar…all around me. Sprawled on my carpet, listening to the storm outside, I had let it drown all the pain inside of me – and had bid farewell to the memories of R…Remembering that evening today, I realized –that this too was maybe, a grieving process. Tonight, I was to let go of K…

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Two lives and a dream

He had small eyes, white hair and a white moustache. I was taken aback when he quietly looked up, his eyes wore a sort of resilient look – of a person who had seen all that was perhaps in the world to see, and had survived it against all odds.


Who's democracy is it anyways?

Into the Woods

Where the mind is without fear

I’ve written this blog in support of Blank Noise Project who are fighting a fight against street harassment

You can read what I have to say here

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Some scattered memories

Cest la Vie

What do you see?
When you look at me
She asked long back
On an evening free


A Farewell Note......

Chasing Sunsets.....

hey guys…..I’m back, after a longish vacation! Haven’t as yet got much time to experiment with the new site, which by the way, looks absolutely awesome!!:-)…so for the time being, u can read my latest blog entry
here


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