It's been a while I've written something for myself. Mostly, I attribute the negligence to this space to the fact that I do a lot of writing at work, and I'm almost, always saturated. I can't bring myself to write some more. Fortunately, for me, my work entails something I really like doing—writing. These days,... Continue Reading →
Travelling at Night
A blanket with doodles of greying edifices, sleeping fields and dotted streetlights folds in several places where the roads meet and the streets part. The earth-a blanket when the night sky comes out to watch. I'm a tiny speck moving on the rough sketch when all is silent, everyone is asleep and I'm travelling. I... Continue Reading →
The Precious Festival that is Life!
I've been living in a city for some time now. The city I have lived in, is like any other—busy, crowded, pseudo-purposeful, full of chaos, and hurried. While no one looks at the clouds above in a city, they exist. Even though no one acknowledges the forgotten trees that abound, they stand quietly in the... Continue Reading →
Faith
Prologue: Please read the footnotes, they are an integral part of the article. It wouldn’t be an understatement if I were to say that faith is perhaps the most abused human attribute. A cousin of trust1, faith is often used by men controlled by greed for their own benefit. But what exactly is faith? Why... Continue Reading →
Amen
I say I want a canvas to paint my heart's ire at night; You hear my refrain and hand me a plum-coloured sky. I say I'll walk down that road, only if you walk along; You heed my obstinacy, and give me a nature's song. I say when I am down and blue, I want... Continue Reading →
The Poor Man and your House.
The other day I was rushing to catch my bus (as usual) to work. While I tidied my just-washed hair, I saw a poor old man trying to drink water from a tap that was on the other side of an iron grill that stood guard to a huge government owned building. The old man... Continue Reading →
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