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How does it feel to come across a truth that wants to make you believe that everything you ever held onto thus far is nothing but a lie?To be there, to have the floor from underneath your feet vanish and make you want to forget all that you were about, is the most terrible ofContinue reading

It set us free.As if our souls had been yearningto touch, to feel, to make numbAgainThose that had been pristine for years now.His touch. Just as how I would want his fingers to run down my back.He did it with utmost care.How beautifully he drew constellations on me with his tenderly yet virile hands.He wouldContinue reading “Pristine”

It’s starting to rain. A drop just had it’s perfect landing on my palm and made me disappear into a puddle of sorrowful thoughts Of those circumstances when my strongest desires didn’t make the ends meet, Of all the love that I let go of my grasp, Of all the lies, that have weaved themselvesContinue reading “VIBGYOR”

There will come a time when all you’d crave for is your own company, when everything that so far seemed as necessary as air would be perfect even without them. The initiative of self discovery starts here. You never know what becomes futile in the process. Not everything is meant to hold its utility toContinue reading “Inefficacious”

It seems quite preposterous how people seem to be obsessed with the virtual existence of a parallel universe where everything that supposedly didn’t work out here would be immensely successful there. Why? Why do we hold onto something that is virtual? Something that perhaps, exists only in our perplexed mind? It is after all, youContinue reading “Ambiguities”

Isn’t comfort all that we look for everywhere? No one would want to walk on a bed of thorns. All we wish for is life to be as comforting as the t-shirt that we wear to bed. It’s almost like a no prick, only comfort policy that we follow. Because why not? Life should beContinue reading “Wonted”

Setsuko: Why do fireflies have to die so soon? A mere dialogue which managed to transform the way I thought about the world as kid. Have you ever seen a grave of fireflies? Isn’t it all mesmerising and captivating? It can manage to hold you still at a place, without hitting you with the realisationContinue reading “Grave of Fireflies”

This bloomed in my garden today. Remember how we begged that old man for one healthy branch of his tree so that we could grow ours? I can’t quite deny the fact that it was your idea. Spotting those flowers everyday on our way home had become like our favourite pastime. Every day, at aroundContinue reading “Plumeria Rubra”

Just in case you’re begining to wonder the origin of this number, it is as random and as special as being our parents only child. 1729 is the only number in the vast infinite boulevard of all numbers that exists as the sum of cubes of two numbers in two different ways. Just like howContinue reading “1729”