Crows, for some reason have dominated my thoughts for the last three weeks or so. Few pages written featuring them and the food we serve on death anniversaries still remain unfinished — scribbles all over the place, random lines that stubbornly refused to fit in any kind of sequence. …

the night shields our secrets our lies our misery how burdened she must feel how eagerly she must wait for daybreak and rest awhile not that the day has it any better he must deal with the curses that follow as all is revealed the time is nearing when both will join forces and give it all back like nature inevitably does once it has enough of our looking away of our pretence tick tock…

lines drawn in sand some in the name of self determination some in the name of a holy father some in the name of revenge (warm and cold) what use are these lines which divide which separate lives into quarters which subjugate words long written professing love and peace to the whims and arrogance of men hollowed out by insecurity…

to see death toy with a loved one is possibly the greatest of all misery. the sense of helplessness, the limit of medical resources and the utter uselessness of the money at your disposal is so stark at such a time. i think its better that death comes silently and…

Some videos surfaced recently of commuters forcing themselves into trains as they have always done; this one video where someone was hoisted out by the crowd was something new. Almost felt like a rockstar flinging himself onto the audience; of course our man was trying his level best to get…

ganapati has been celebrated at maushi’s place for a very long time now. one can say that the celebrations have now reached a sedate, middle age kind of state. we wind up at the same time though :). one of my abiding memories is of post the visarjan; a quick…

How quickly the year has passed since the beginning of the most significant movements I have witnessed. The Bharat Jodo Yatra will always be special. The INC established a direct connect with the people bypassing the need for an increasingly partisan media. Its followers galvanised, its leaders motivated; one got…

Team of Rivals “Team of rivals” is a book that I have been attempting to complete reading for a fairly long time. On my reading stand, with a fair amount of stickies marking the interesting pages. …

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