The Dog Bite (कुत्ते का काटना)

कहानी छोटी सी - स्पष्ट एवं सरल हिंदी में ! अगर आप एक बच्चे के माता पिता या अभिभावक हैं और आपके किसी जानकार का कुत्ता आपके बच्चे पर झपटता ह...

The Quicksand

Mix the thirst of a lifetime with an eternal anguish and sieve it through pitch dark blindness. Add the cocaine of hopelessness and the desp...

The Inheritance…

I am not a super hero. I don’t even possess a special talent. I can’t paint (not anymore I guess), can’t sing, can’t dance, can’t play any m...

Saying Goodbyes…

There are two approaches to say Goodbye: APPROACH – I Hug the people no matter who they are. Feel the touch, the texture of their cloth...

The Life Before.…

“What is never started will never get finished” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People think that there is only one life between the day they...

All the Stars…

I put up a new sky for you tonight. I promise I will do that every night. Look out of your window when the Sun goes down. You will find a...

The Song…

I stumbled upon a song and it led me to you. I kept playing it all afternoon and thought of what I would have said to you, if only I could. ...

The Alternate Ending…

I wish you hadn’t begun the conversation the way you did and that you hadn’t left the door open. Perhaps, on another day we wouldn’t have wa...

The Erosion

It’s a vacuum. The moment that had led to this free fall seems like from another life altogether. I don’t even remember how many days it had...

The Dreamer…

She sang a little word and then wove a broken line, threw in a loopy rhyme and a tale was spun in time From the fluffy cloud doors the gol...

Hashiye Tak Ka Safar (हाशिये तक का सफ़र)

A friend made the following post titled ‘Yaas’ on her blog. Check the blog HERE मैं सदा तेरी किताब के हाशिये में ही रहा हूँ मुखपृष्ठ पर, ...

Mansooba (मंसूबा)

  हुआ करे लाख़ मुख़ातिब, हमसे लोग ज़माने में करें ख़ैरियत - ख़्याल बेशक़, दिन-रात, आने-जाने में दरकार सबकी अपनी है, अदब-सलाम बजाने में यूँ ही नही...

The Rescue…

An earthquake struck Nepal at 11:56 NST on 25 April, 2015 with a moment magnitude (M w ) of 7.8 or 8.1M s and a maximum Mercalli Intensity...

The Wait (Weight) is Good….

I was as confused as one could be. I hadn’t known these feelings before. My mind was playing dirty games. I looked around and it took me an ...

Intersecting Monologues…

“There is no such thing as a conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all." - Dame Rebecca West Y...

Dying?

‘I’m dying’ she said. “Who isn’t? We all are.” He replied. “It’s just a matter of time”. ----------------------------------------------...

Let’s Pawn The Silence…

I spent all my words today. The bag of words gaped at me with its wide, quizzing eyes. I guess, even it did not believe that I will be so wa...

The Respite Lies in the Journey…

Resting is tiresome. My respite begins with the travel. The social obligations are obliterated when the final goodbyes are said. The journey...

Let’s Just Flow…

Let us not use any more words. I guess we have known each other well enough all these years to know that the more we discuss our situation n...

Tethered

The dreams lead on, like a bunch of helium balloons raring to go. They soar and take my being away, make me a superhero who could fly and ...

Things You Learn at Work – 2

All that you need to know about documentation.

One Man’s Sorrow…

Clicked the set below at a cremation ground recently, right after the pyre was cleared and the offerings (usually some food and sugar and mi...

Things You Learn at Work – 1

Need I say more...

Between Dreams, Life and Memories…

The shades of winters fade as spring takes over declawing the cold wind and forcing the Sun to take over the reigns of the days once again. ...

Degeneration

The Sun impishly played with the clouds outside the window. I looked around and saw the leafless trees set in motion by the unforgiving wind...

Aur Nahi Hota (और नहीं होता)

नज़रों से ज़्यादा आज़ाद-गुफ़्तार नहीं कोई यह वो कहती है जो ज़बान से बयान नहीं होता होगा कौन और दर्द सा वफादार इस ज़माने में साथ यह निभाता है जब ...

Abstractions Visualized

Clicked the following set of three posters at Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery AL on a recent visit to US of A. I can’t tell what the artist ...

The Next Day…

She woke up with a heavy head, her mind reeling from the evening before. Maybe it was all a dream, she thought. Wishful thinking – her subc...

Holiday Hues…

I clicked the picture above at Delhi Haat in December last year and it won a photography contest at work recently. Here is the link to the...

The Wedlock

The grey and wet morning led to a hapless afternoon and a bitter, nonchalant evening. She prepared herself for the night ahead. She knew it ...