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Yes, we have read about it in history books. Yes, our grandparents and parents have told us all about it. We have read how “movements” brought about awakenings in the minds of the people of …
So curious to take one glimpse of that flying airplane,
Not even bothering if it causes any neck strain.
Playing in the basking heat till forehead sweats,
So what if in this bargain even sun sets?
Riding …
When it comes to the monthly line up of bills, I keep having these mischievous and fairly notorious thoughts—like what if the electric meter would stop recording our electricity usage; or what if the telephone …
Fusion is the word that’s ‘in’ these days. Just the other day, I was flipping through the pages of a pizza joint menu card, and believe me, I was aghast… Completely bowled over by the …
I always passed through that room,
Where was kept your big maple box,
And it made me wonder
What all you might have kept in stock?
May be you’d kept those tinkling bracelets
or your favorite anklets.
May be …
Shimmering moonlight peeps through the living room window. Beside, a glass bowl is dearly kept, which contains some rose petals and water, and the bowl holds the reflecting moonbeam so lovingly…as if a mother would …
A truly magical journey is what you embark upon, when you relish this book from start to finish. The process of reading this book is a one of its kind treat that makes you wonder, …
I saw you in the waiting room
Alone in a corner
Subdued; calm
Glancing at the moon….
Still others were around
Doing something or the other
But you were different; uncanny
In looks and in manner
I’d a late night train …
Shuttling constantly from here to there, from hand to hand, from pocket to pocket and from purses to wallets and wallets to wallets are the bemusing bunch of never tiring notes (It isn’t the study …
Rewind to this cute nursery rhyme that used to go so well with the then toddlers—“Johnny Johnny Yes Papa…eating sugar- no papa….”. This very rhyme related so much to the innocent bunch of frolicking toddlers …
Shantaram knew that his fishing net was his identity. It wasn’t merely his livelihood, but his raison de’etre. He was always focused, and immensely experienced. So be it a high tide or any temporary whirlwind; …
I distinctively recollect, how as I child, I used to fondly accompany mom to her lovely kitty parties. These parties used to be held once a month, and used to happen at the homes of …
Sometimes I just hate
The noise of that irritating alarm
Reluctantly I wake
I switch it off, stretching the arm.
Sometimes I just hate
When in time approaches my train
I wonder why it’s not late
But all my wonder …
Life is beautiful for this ten year old dark mahagony colored wooden bench placed in the public park about eight years back. It was brought here after the park opened for public, and since then …
A constant soothing breeze that blows into the bungalow,
The breeze comes in through that corner window…
The window has a décor of curtains and cushions,
Curtains delicately flowing of nylons and chiffon…
On the pelmet of …
At 6.30 AM sharp, every single day, beating against all weather odds, one friend used to come and visit a gentleman seventy three years old residing in Gunwant Society. The man was Shri. Pabalkar, whom …
The only thing constant in this fast world is change,
Of truth and fiction, the former one is indeed strange.
Moon phases occur from lunar to full,
Economies vary on the continuum of bear to bull.
Technologies …
Who says it’s only the adult creative types who bear an intrinsic talent of imagination? All those visualizers and advertising stalwarts scattered all over, or all those emphatic design engineers- it isn’t just this breed …
Heard of a game called hide n seek?
Which all children play, when their childhood is at peak.
They bob, they run, they hide,
Then they don’t care even if elders chide.
‘cause all they want to do …
All those ladies who frequent visits to a tailor to get their salwar kurtas/ dresses/ trousers etc stitched—this one’s for you—
Months back, I landed at a tailor’s shop, to get some kurtaas stitched. I had …
