Finding Corners

“It isn’t fair,” she said and held herself back. “What isn’t fair?” he asked. “It isn’t fair that I keep craving for you all day while y...

The Wind Beneath My Wings…

As I rode back that evening after meeting you, an empty road and a gentle breeze signaled a perfect closure to the evening. It had been an e...

अग्नि-वर्षा (Rain of Fire)

अनायस, मुक्ति का आभास सहज साहस, उन्मुक्त श्वास अविरल विचार, स्वतंत्र सरिता भँवरे की गुंजन, सरल कविता है यथार्थ, या मात्र एक भ्रम स्वपन ...

The Lunar Phase

She rested her head on his shoulder, held his arm and continued tapping her foot to the music. Her eyes sparkled and her face seemed to glow...

Pics from Hyderabad (2017)

Another much awaited picture set finally sorted, edited and uploaded for online share. These are from a pleasure trip to Hyderabad in April...

The Blank Pages

…and in the end, you and I will count all the things that we didn’t do. I will walk into my living room and stare at the wall that remaine...

The Deferred Burial

As I sat there looking at her, I realized that we have been through this life and this moment earlier too. Here in front of us was lying ano...

Collateral Damage

“I need you more than anyone else, perhaps even more than you need me” he said and came around and flung an arm around her. “Do you feel s...

Bon Appétit

Please don’t be late for dinner tonight as I am doing a special recipe. I have cooked up the last of supplies and have laid out the table....

The Fallen Brick...

The brick fell out of the wall and there was a hole left gaping in its place. A passer by tossed the brick to a side and it rested there for...

Of Scratches and Scribbles…

It had been a while since he had spoken to her. He would see her, walk past him, oblivious to his existence multiple times during the week....

Things You Learn at Work–11

Business Days versus Calendar Days

Things You Learn at Work–10

When theories no longer work…

Things You Learn at Work–9

A word about the flexible working hours – the corporate mirage.

Things You Learn at Work–8

Work from home explained.

Pics from Varanasi (2017)

This is perhaps the longest it took me to edit a set of travel pictures and post online and maybe one the largest one too that I might have ...

Irony

Clicked this, a few weeks ago. Does anyone else see the irony in this picture?

The Element of Emptiness

Last night I wandered out of my body and took refuge in my astral sphere once again. I rested by the shores of the great ocean and watched s...

मरघट के उत्सव (The Celebration)

नित्य नवीन काया सजाए राम नाम का कीर्तन गाये जन - परिजन संग लिये परिधान,श्रृंगार रंग किये अनुष्ठान रात-दिन रचते हैं  मरघट के उत्सव कहते हैं ...

One Day…Someday

“I have always been a minor aberration in your life, a trivial, inconsequential, inconvenience of sorts and perhaps nothing more. You were b...

Walking past that bench again…

Sit with me here, next to me on top of this water tank on the terrace of a tall building tucked in an urban landscape. It could be any build...

The Raindrop

It took me several years and many lifetimes to arrive at this moment. I waited my time lying frozen in a glacier before swimming with the ri...

Fear

“Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fe...

The Other Realm

I guess it is for the best that we cease to acknowledge that we exist in the same physical world and just restrict ourselves to the abstract...

Odd/Even

“I am feeling odd lying down alone, out in the balcony”, she said. He got up and came out to lie down next to her and replied “Does it make...

Undo

How many times do you wish you could just take a chunk of your life and undo it? Imagine this, you have been out in the sun too long and a...

The Prisoner

I have been here all along. Often, I call out your name and wait for you to turn your head. When you rest your head on the pillow and call i...

The Drink…

I wait for you at the corner of the fragile moon and the tired sun, sitting on the bench by the banyan tree overlooking the banks of the riv...

What if…

What if I had been born in another country at another time? What if I had been sent to a different school? What if I had opted for another p...

And… Pooffff !!!

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. “Where do you want to go?” wa...

The Fallacy of Self-Worth (Egosystems)

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wild...

The Boat

Years ago, we stole a small boat and set sail on choppy waters. You carried the bread you had baked and I brought a blanket for us to shar...

Pawn the Dream…

I woke up dreaming about you again. As always, I saw you in a different setting, a different place saying something that I hadn’t heard befo...