
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Maybe...Just...Maybe...

Sunday, November 6, 2011
Maybe...

Monday, April 4, 2011
Attention All Would be Mothers!!!

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Pay 5000 now and ensure that the lineage would go on... Although no one might remember you 2 generations down but still... Maybe... Remotely... Theres always hope...
Pay 5000 now and ensure that you won't feel guilty when you give her share of food to someone else in the family... After she is the 'weaker-sex' and you need to feed so many men to their symbol of prosperity (the proverbial 'tond')...
Pay 5000 now and be relieved that you would never have to make compromises with her studies... God forbid, if she is ambitious... Just imagine, how difficult and expensive would be a well educated groom...
Pay 5000 now and be sure you will be relieved of any after-marriage tensions a daughters family faces... You shall have the privilege of being a cause of tension for others...
Pay 5000 now and be sure that there is never even a rare possibility that despite an autocratic, obedience-driven upbringing... she might wish to make her own decisions...
Pay 5000 now and ensure that you never have to worry about the fact that you did so... never have the guilt of this day... because its what 'people' approve...
Pay 5000 now and ensure you don't have to commit a murder of her wishes everyday... just one small insignificant flush out of a few life cells...
Pay 5000 now and ensure she doesn't blame you all her life for not standing up for her... with her... be sure to scuttle that voice even before it rises...
Pay 5000 now...
But just remember those times...
When you wished for something and when you found no one to stand by you...
When you compromised on your ambitions for the sake of others...
When you could not understand why your biggest of achievements were belittled...
When you were told having a career is not a dignified option...
When your independent thinking was frowned upon and squeezed out of you...
Isn't it a chance for you to revive those dreams... re-live them... cherish them once again and resolve to give her all that you did not...
But of course, you are wise and un-emotional would take a rational, fact based decision...
So, Pay 5000 now and get a hassle free life...!!!
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NOTE: The United Nations says an estimated 2,000 unborn girls are illegally aborted every day in India.
In a patriarchal society where we do not appreciate individuality, appreciating it in girls is probably too much to ask for...
But, appreciating life is the minimum a civilized society needs to do... Probably we have decided to prove to our erstwhile colonizers that they were right when they talked about the white-man's burden... that we are hell bent to prove that we are naturally uncivilized and barbaric... that we derive pleasure in killing unborn and newly born girl child...
Yet, we shall continue to think we are a manifestation of traditional mindset... the mindset in which in the oldest of the scriptures we have hymns composed by likes of Vagambhrini... and the importance of knowledge for women, equality for women, grace of being a woman are emphasised (http://agniveer.com/1291/women-in-vedas/)...
Or maybe we are just fallible demons who have decided to grab very opportune moment and fall a notch lower time and again.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
A look through my eyes...
Feeling as if the movie of my life started playing before me to delve...
Think through things without meaning to...Seeing it all bit by bit and yet all at once...
Maybe it was a chance awarded by fate for... an objective perusal ... a chance to find the pattern in the madness... or maybe just a desperate search for balance...
It was all in my eye... all in the rainbow of shades i saw

Ebony of the murkiness and gloominess that engulfs me once in a while...
Red of the anger that grips me out of the blue...Anger at myself for the hopeless hopes..weak moments and teary eyes...
Amber of jealousy oh so ill-directed and without a source... But still a part of me who shines on despite locking it under layers of restrain...
Brown of the chocolate always dark and yet so comforting...
Grey like the clouds of rain that bring with them the breeze to dispel murkiness and the silver linings....
Purple of the trust so often misplaced but with a shine of the few irreplaceable jewels in my life...each as rare as a snowflake...
Green of the pastures and life around me... giving me the strength and the faith in the goodness despite the deceit...smiles despite the tears...
Blue of the raindrops letting the dirt be washed and replaced by a fresh hope reflecting the new morning sky...
As I blinked... I wrapped an eyelash around the different shades of myself... accepting them or maybe just accepting myself... As I am... How I am... How I look at things...
As I blinked... I wrapped an eyelash around the world as I see it...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
La Pluie!
One after the other they came my way.... all to stay...
Despite my desperate attempts my stuborn.. unwelcome guests... clung on...
Making their presence felt through the ignorance and coldness...

Oh! my desperate lonely attempts were all failing and somehow HE knew...
Like all other times he sensed it...
Through my attempts to hide it and mask it...
He understood it and waited...
Respecting my decision to tackle them on my own...
Showering all the patience in the world on this impatient being...
Smiling and encouraging...
Loving and respecting...
Caring and looking-on...
And just when I was being engulfed into tiredness...
About to let my unwelcome guests overstay...
Suddenly, those guests melted away into oblivion...
And he sent to me his love as he always does...
Through my companion since forever...
During the good times and the bad...
More often as a gift...
But today as the much needed cheerful friend :)
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Why Do I Think!

What am I because I feel...??? Is all that I am because I feel or that I think I feel???
Or do i just simply feel too much....and let rationality fly out of the window...
I make all those castles in the air and live in them with all my conviction...
Believe in things beyond my control and hope againt hope...
Dance in the rain and see my troubles wash off...
Love with all my might believing in the best that things can be...
But yet again the badger of rationality is back here...
Thriving sometimes on flashbacks and sometimes on phobias...
Threatening through the tears and the hurt that could be my companion...
Why can't I just forget things and let events unfold as and when they happen...Why do I think afterall???
Monday, November 2, 2009
Nostalgia...
Surrounded by the moments...etched on the shining web of my life... engraved in my mind...
A walk down the memory lane hand-in-hand with reflections of the past smiling on the surface of the river of life...
I feel it all once again... an explosion of memories...
familiar touch...
treat to step over a failure...

fluttering of unexpressed attractions...
teary eyes and wet shoulders...
walk in the rain on the sea...
smiling eyes...
conversations on the bus ride...
intiation of an unending love with soft companions...
flowing rivers...
shared chairs and thoughts...
barefooted walks on the sandy beach...
pride of gaving a nickname...
being taught to cross a road...
rainful walk through the fields...
talks across seas...
feeble attempts at learning another language...
One jacket...
bonfires, birthdays and cribbs...
developing a unsatiable sweet tooth...
generalizing crushes and criticizing heart-breakers...
parapet wall talks...
expression of gratitude, failures and welcomes...
thinking by the river side...
dancing to loneliness...
story reading sessions interspersed with barter of randomness...
burning of hands in the snow...
Discovery of the perpetual child...
A merry go round in the colorful fair called 'life'...
I feel the sweetness, randomness, compassion, concern... the intimacy and a feeling of being looked after...All rolled in one... The great balance of life is tipped and even smiles at me... Between the everyday moments of nicknames, gossip, chocolates, treats, fights, misunderstandings... special moments like these found a place and to this day are making me smile...
Monday, August 24, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Random thoughts of contentment...

Thats everything is meant to be good so I just need to flow with the river...
I feel that along with the sand in my bag... Probably a piece of that peaceful heaven made its place somewhere in my heart...
That smile that had hid itself somewhere... resurfaced on seeing the sea for hours under the spell of rain and clouds and just hearing the universal music of eternity...
Simple pleasures of an intelligent company wherein the words dont really matter...
Mutual lazyness... understanding... And a few guitar strings wanna make you dance to the tune of life...
And beautiful and simple dreams of living life surrounded by the wilderness we were born out of... the world of forests, mountains and rivers all around... Ah! the touch of nature... Oh! the possibilities reality holds for us...
Just thinking free and being a freebird... of just letting the blue nun help us discover the thoughts that were always there and formed some connect that is mysterious and somehow still there...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Where art thou?

Attire of a princess riding on a chariot so elegant...
Sighs of the people who see her approach...
A relief to the strained eyes with her cool and relieving accomplices...
Greeted by the animal kingdom and the lesser mortals with smiles...
She comes with a sound that reverberates with the sound of my soul...
A sight full of colors of the world twisted in one thread... spun all over me...
and multiple colorful canopies suddenly cropping up over the others...
She comes with a promise of betterment and washes away all the tears...
And just fills the world with innumerable colors and me up with an urge to just smile...
I wonder where she is this year... why she hasn't yet come here...
My companion since my birth... I hope she is somewhere near... ...
P.S. I hope the rains come and grace us fast... really wanna see the glorious greens all around me...
Sunday, April 5, 2009
The Eternal Affair

She wanted to have fun with her darling friend of a few months...
Just tickle him once more before bidding farewell...
To leave an indelible imprint on his heart of her memory...to have him waiting impatiently for her next year round...
She just smiled and had her partners of all crimes just spread their wings...
They conspired with the man in the night sky and spread the white awesomeness all around...
The trees embraced the white sheen and the mountains slept under the comforting white blanket...
It was just a scene out of dreams...
To this unreal dreamland he woke up in the morning...
With her impression on all beings alive and sleeping...
He searched for her all around just to see her for the last time... just to etch her face in his heart...
She kept playing hide and seek with the trees and bushes helping her highness in all the ways they could...
She knew once she met him she would cease to be... she would just turn into a formless shining crystal... And he knew this was the last time he would see for many months to come...
They frolicked and danced around till they were destined to meet and all that was heard was a splash...
The resounding splash that paused the affair of the snow queen with the majestic sun... leaving the two lovers waiting for their time... once again...
P.S. It snowed the night before, and the sight was just breathtaking with snow caught in every nook and corner of the world around us... (Date:21st March 2009)... Couldn't resist reacting on the chirstmassy march :)
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Amplified Miniatures...

Friday, December 5, 2008
A little droplet of water...

The feeling of being sucked into a black-hole...
The way nothing seems to matter anymore...
The work seems to be exciting but the excitement lives in me no more...
The people seem to be friendly but all I see in their eyes are empty cores...
The life seems to be different but a day is so like the other...
The tears want to surface but the eyes seem to be drier than yesterday...
The emotions wish to live but the professionalism takes their life away...
The pressure of apparent maturity has me wondering...what should I do and say...
The sudden grip of dark emotions has made the wonderment of small things in life go way...
The innocent smile somehow seems to have lost its way and gone far away...
All I feel today is an urge to cry and even my tears seem to be deserting me in a similar way...
Never did I think that I would crave these little droplets of water some day...
Thursday, October 16, 2008
What was it?

They saw each other across the room and suddenly something hit them...
Deciding to take the bolt of something they had felt in their stride they ignored each other...
Trying had to control the surge of feelings they busied themselves with the people around...
They talked and laughed, played and ran... But it was never full-heartedly as a piece of it was lost... and was hanging loose somewhere around...
As the fate would have it they had to walk hand in hand ...
They walked and they played they made the moments of the play matter and somewhere somehow they ended up making the world feel jealous...
They then talked... and walked... walked and walked... laughed and smiled... frolicked and smiled...
They teased and shared and somehow felt closer to each other than no one ever before...
Deciding to live their life as they wished they did what they felt like...
But they were righteous and somewhere the thought of people around held them back...
They vowed to forget those moments and move on... they decided it was just an infatuation... they reasoned it out with themselves....
But still sometimes when the reasons fail and the memories flood they wonder... what was it? Was it just a emotional baggage or was it something divine...
Were those moments a dream or could I still call them mine...
Was it just a moments paradise or was it something beyond time...
What was it...What was it... Were they just two parallel lines never meant to meet...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Bewildered
So much to do... so little time...
The moments fly away... and the dates blur into oblivion...
Plans that I make... the dreams that I see...
Seem to be deserting me...
The energy seems to be misplaced...
Everything around me seems to be set in its own place...
I want to shake things up...
Make my time count and my minutes matter...
I want to live those dreams... and see many more...
I don't want to let them die a slow death...
I want to water them and let them blossom...
I want to see them smiling at the world...
I have to remain what I am...
Its so easy to just flow along the river...
And so easy to forget ones purpose...
Its so easy to make-believe that I am important...
But its very important to realize the truth...
And face the facts that stare at me with my half-dead dreams in their arms...
He and She

He said he was lying yet she believed...
She fumbled and he thought of it as realism...
He wrote poems and she thought of herself as a princess...
She cried and he was there to just listen...
He shared his thoughts and she was amazed...
She sang and he thought of her as a nightingale...
He brought in the concept of we and she accepted...
She laughed with him and the happiness in it reverberated...
He cared and she pampered...
She talked and he listened...
He can't forget those times
She remembers them fondly
He still thinks of her as the coolest girl
She still wonders at time what happened
They still talk, they still laugh and they still know each other like no other...
To the beautiful randomness.......cheers!!!

We always wish to play safe... to live with guarantees... I don't know whom to blame ... maybe the companies that ensure us of quality in everything and make us so used to expecting the best that we forget the human component in us and others around us we always expect perfection and the best in life... We always wish to hedge our bets and have multiple options in life... always control our thoughts and actions... always be something we don't wish to be...
In my odyssey of life...I thought...
I saw something, did something and got to know a lot more...
Experienced the oceanic wonders from the shore...
In the flight above this world...
Underwent the suddenness and fear of a crash that I just heard...
In the pages of a book...
Touched the dragons and the unicorns; lived in the shady nook...
In a passing smile...
Saw the depth of life, something beyond time...
But in reality...
I always was guarded and time and again let my impulses die...
And when they won blamed them for the momentary death of rationality...
Why oh why did I curse the lovely randomness that made living worthwhile...
To randomness and impulses that make the bland whiteness of life colorful...
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Music and Lyrics

Music... a healer... a sharer... a love that definitely lasts numerous lifetimes...
if only... I could just sway and fly away with it to the world beyond words and mundane rhymes...
To a world full of melody...
To the place that survives on harmony...
To that land that I peep into everyday when I am dreamy...
The poetic proses...
The verses full of meaning...
Give words their purpose of existing...
And gives human kind am attempt at expressing...an attempt at feeling... and at living....
Married together they both attain a different dimension...
They both teach us the meaning and essence of any relation...
Together they are all powerful... can break any meditation... aid voluntary submission...
Their togetherness inspires the lonely and gives strength to the togetherness of any relation...
They are an all time inspiration and a divine creation...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Has someone just kept a whole mountain on my heart... or have I just replaced Atlas... My heart seems to be crushed under some unexplained weight... a weight that keeps increasing the more I think about it... Misery might love company but the misery in my heart is attracting unwanted and strange feelings and fighting a strong battle against the small and seemingly diminishing ray of hope...
The heart seems to be overwhelmingly overfilled with a feeling of have lost something very dear in an impulse... It suddenly has hitchhiked on the chariot which somehow seems to be full of all the moments of helplessness and inadequacy...
Filled with the feeling of having not met expectations... not only others but my own...
Of having not thought of the long term but lived in the moments of instantaneous smiles... and got numerous tears in return...
Of having not being the ideal but being a mere human...
Of having trusted people easily at times...
Of having expected too much out of life...
Of always gliding into problematic circumstances...
Of having the feeling that I have raised the bar of expectation and whether I would be able to perform or not...
Of the feelings of guilt and fear...
Of the feeling of seeing no output and feeling inadequate...
Of the feeling of being in self-doubt...
No wonder the hope seems timid in front of all of these... But in it lies the essence of life and the power of youthfulness of enthusiasm... and it will make all these bickering ghosts run away... I just have to believe in it... Just have to believe ...
once again place my trust, once again believe in myself,
once again be ready to face all the challenges, once again be ready to smile...
All in all, once again be ready to live...
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Education ... really!!!!

The first time he set eyes on her he couldn't help wondering was there anything cuter in this world, she seemed like a fairy that descended from heavens just to make his life happier and he felt so filled with love for this small sweet cute bundle of joy... his daughter!!!
He wanted her to grow up into what all she wanted... wanted to fulfill all her dreams... wanted to find her the knight in shining armor... wanted her to live a life beyond anyones dreams... wanted to let the fairy rise and fly all over the world...
He gave her everything.. all he could all she wanted but then she grew up... and time to find that knight of dreams neared... she wanted to fly more be the best amongst many, she had proved her worth but he could no longer bear to let her live her dreams, not because they were preposterous or worthless but because he had set aside 10 lakh rupees for her marriage half as an expense and the other half as the cost of the knight... if she flew higher the knight would have to be a higher up and would be more costly and he could no longer afford to let her be the best... he was contemplating forcing her daughter to be mediocre so that he could buy the knight for him...
P.S. Based on a true incident of a father who was desperately trying to get his daughter married and in his desperation told her that it would have been better if he would have married her off after 12th the knight would have cost only a lakh then... with every new qualification she gains he becomes more costly and more elusive....
In today's world when girls are supposed to believe they are equals incidents like these happen everyday and living in midst of such happenings who would believe the "say no to dowry", "embrace a girl child" campaigns when every qualification that the guy gains increases his value and every qualification that the girl gains is a added burden on the already burdened and worried father who wants to give his fairy the best but can no longer afford it....
Is that what education reduces us to... mere greedy souls who want to put a price to their children's dreams? Or does the major half of the population seek education to increase their stock price??
Saturday, May 17, 2008
The clean slate....
Everything normal but a heart filled with emotions that surface at the slightest of provocations...
Anger, an urge to rip the deceiver apart...
Rush of mushyness and a feeling of happiness in the heart...
Depression that grips the heart part by part...
Memories of the friendly moments that bring a smile and force the lips to part...

Past that tickles us and we wish for it to repeat often...
Life that brings the dreadfulness alive again...
Words that make one swell with satisfaction...
Recollections that make one tremble with fear...
Time and again we say we would start all over again...We would forget it all and have a clean slate...
Convinced that we would form new memories of happiness and depression, of love and heartbreak...
But again and again on an unexpected blue moon night it all comes back to haunt us with its marvel and creepiness, with its happiness and tears, with its endearments and curses...
We take refuge in 'human nature' for breaking our resolve...
We justify and re-justify, re-resolve, re-clean the slate...
But... Do we really wipe it clean enough??...
Can we ever let bygones really be bygones???
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
An old friend???

One (un)fine day...
It was sunny and sultry... sweaty and sticky...
Weather was playing games ... having fun seeing us squirm and swelter...
Earthlings had short tempers and long streams of sweat on themselves...
Spearheading the group of the frustrated and irritated souls was who else but me...
Suddenly out of no where I felt a shade creep up on me...
A welcome shade which did not seem to end... made as if just for me...
Surprised I looked up and saw him...
My tiny little sweet friend whom I met every July...
Smiling down and me and winking...
Tugging at that unruly wind that always took him away from me...
Trying to win... and (despite the history) with me praying silently that he does...
And voila! the Gods heard me! the wind tasted defeat for once...
For the first time since forever, I had my friend with me...
A friend who I always knew was there... Someone whose presence was always felt...
And finally!!! he won ... we were together... we were smiling and celebrating...
We started talking ... he spoke in his soft, misty tone giving me eternal peace...
He seemed to understand me even before I made an attempt at speaking...He just knew it all!!!
We continued to converse... in a language without words... a language without any need for words... it was as if we knew each other since forever and still was this the first time??
Wasn't he always around when I danced in the rains??
But.. wasn't he around at the wrong time now!!! It was April...
Just as the thought entered me... he bid me farewell... saying it was lovely to see me from up above the world... but the duty beckoned and we dutifully parted...
Having talked to him and experienced a whole new world in the company of a cloud...
A cloud that was always there and will be above me... watching, smiling, reassuring and just being...
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Barter System....
But at least there was this thin veil that tried to hide the frankness with which these things stare at us in the eye today... So much so that in the end we have to lower our gaze with shame... The veil hid this public shame... Today its all a fact and everyone knows it... and it had become an unknown qualification... sincerity and goodness are everyday dismissed by the profit oriented mindset...
This issue has been there since time eternal... since the very first fight of the good and the evil... this is the fight we have to take sides in... and the indecisive society of today which rests on coalition governments and product promotions rather than knowledge and information seems to be just drifting with the flow rather than sitting back and even trying to think....
P.S. Contrary to the popular belief by society I do not mean only the youth, they are a part but they do not form the whole society per say...
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Life keeps on happening....

The story keeps on building...
The characters keep on playing...
The roles keep on changing...
The mystery keeps on unfolding...
The truths keep on intriguing...
The dreams keep on disappearing...
The innocence keeps on decreasing...
The reality keeps on hitting...
The hope keeps on dying...
The optimism keeps on fighting...
The pessimism keeps on smiling...
The real person keeps on balancing...
The real person keeps on living...
Friday, February 15, 2008
Once Again...

The moment of choice...
The moment that waited for my wish...
The moment that put the heart and mind to conflict...
And then... out of nowhere... as a surprise to myself...
Filled with something unexplainable.. I set it free...
Free as a bird...
With its own free will...
And in its celebration of freedom...it just swept me off my feet...
We then took the flight to the unknown...
Saw things beyond comprehension...
Had feelings that needed no explanation...
Experienced the feeling of eternal trust...
And just lived with each other... admiring the unknown....
Gave the mind, the rational being a very hard time...
But just as I saw the moment die... I heard the rationality laughing at me... somewhere far away in time...
I grieved at the loss of companion and lost my senses...
The opportune mind grabbed the chance and bombarded me with doubts, questions...
And smiled with cynical satisfaction as I gave in to the feelings of distrust, fear... ONCE AGAIN!!
Monday, February 11, 2008
Moments....

Moments of desperation...
Moments of isolation...
All showed their compassion,
But what stuck with me is the everlasting relation...
With the moments that were painted with emotions...
The moments that touched my heart...
The moments of sharing...
The moments filled with laughter...
The moments of leg-pulling...
The moments of tears...
Or the moments of just quite companionship...
The moments all full of different shades of friendships...
With each minute taking me to the end of this beautiful journey...
How I wish, I could just grab these seconds in my fist...
Picture Courtesy: http://fashionistaandbaby.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/1a18.jpg
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Life....

Life has so much to offer...
The pleasantness of an unexpected conversation...
The shock of the unforeseen betrayal...
The anticipation of that smile...
The pain of separation...
Life is much more than we can fathom...
It is a splash of colors so bright...
And a inky blue well so deep...
It is the eyes of a child so innocent...
And a game so cunning...
Life is a mystery with numerous layers ...
It is the magic of THE moment...
The overbearing emotions..
The loss of practicality...
The love of the unachievable...
Life is nothing but a beautiful chaos full of the happiness with tinges of sadness here and there....
Image courtesy: http://picasaweb.google.com/hd.hang/Fractals/photo#5096914591042717298
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Just a pair of eyes

They shine with the happiness of your inner self...
They mirror the sarcasm hidden inside your heart...
They reflect the jealousy that fills you up...
They also show the sadness surrounding you...
They flashes the feelings you hide...
They resonate your fears...
They flare with the anger in you...
They reverberate with all you feel...
Yet they are just a pair of eyes...