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Here’s a question for you – ‘For how long do you think you’d be able to survive on life support aka ventilator?’ Come to think of it, I believe that I would not exceed a span of a few months. Ever so often, I find myself having these vivid dreams wherein a machine does theContinue reading “Ventilator”

Ours was a generation of seesaws and merry-go-rounds.More than anything, we loved whiling our time away in the Children’s Park of 12th Street, downtown.Dashing through the gate we ran into this meadow of joy and felicity Stomping grounds, embracing winds of laughter and mirth,Riding merry-go-rounds with heads swirling around.Holding on and letting go of theContinue reading “The Abandoned Park”

Growing up in a nation where birth rate and population ratios touch the skies, children don’t see many prospects of development here. And it is also somewhere justified on their behalves. Why would they want to be citizens of a country where meals cost more than survival, where racism has a nest of its ownContinue reading “Incredible India”

You slid your glistening bodyInto an emerald green gownThat felt no less thanAn adornment in wilderness.Your skin felt like sheen,One that I’d been yearning for. For reasons, green on youMade you all the more beguiling.It made hearts beat unceasingly,And eyes blink impulsively. And when you took these swirlsBefore the mirror, that you soPrettified with orchidsContinue reading “An emerald green gown”

Ever so often we are found plucking flowers off plants and not the leaves. Rarely do we ever let something beautiful flourish, and assume that they belong to us, when the truth is that they don’t. Things don’t belong to people, and neither do people belong to each other. It almost takes a lifetime forContinue reading “How leaves are not given enough recognition for their quality”

The very picture our minds forms when we come across the word ‘holocaust’ is a terrible dream in itself. Back in 1939, the Second World War began and humanity witnessed the worst. Usually when there is a tension between two countries, the allies walk into the tension without even measuring the outcomes. What we findContinue reading “The Holocaust”

As I undo the buttons of your suit,I find two grenades secured to the clamp around your waistline.Carefully, I detach them.“Don’t their make you jittery?”, I ask.The only answer I get is your smirk.I guess after years of having grenades slide against your skin, it is meant to turn into a habit. As I goContinue reading “Angel”

You are infinite. The best dancer to watch and the best person to be around. You heal, you help, you fight and you win. You won at life even when you lost at everything. You lost Tommy who left you that beautiful set of lingerie. And somewhere, while figuring out the way to move onContinue reading “An open letter to Tiffany from Silver Linings Playbook (2012)”