In that momentary reverie by the turquoise waters of Kosi river, I realized what I had come to.
What I had lost and yet what was not lost in me.
Time leaps but vagrants remain enshrined — sometimes like footprints sealed in fossils and at others; resting like pebbles in the river bed, once touched and forever waiting.
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“Any grand plans for Valentine’s day?” quizzed Kaalicharan’s baritone voice.
“When have I had any?”
“But,” smiling sheepishly he added, “You aren’t a dog”.
“Who knows if I am” with a sigh, the pseudo philosopher in me heaved, “a dog inside this human flesh”
Snoopy, Calvin and Hobbes Valentines Day Read More »
A cursory glance on facebook and it’s easy to delve in the wave of wedding updates. The delirious setting gets still creepier when the question gets popped out of unassuming corners. At office cubicle, over a cafeteria conversation or an impromptu conversation, there is always someone who wishes to inquire ‘when’ as if the gyrations of the planet depend on a matrimonial.
It is no secret that I don’t believe in humans with a halo over their head ― the ayatollahs, sacrosanct religious gurus and Swami Holier-than-thou and the Ulema Ulysses.
It is the hound I trust in. Period.
Always have. Always will.
The meaning of life Read More »
All that my paws can find amid ferns are some wedding invites, electricity bills and newspaper inserts. No one has written to me in ages. No, I don’t count the email. I yearn to feel the texture of paper with words in them. Words; written and not typed. Words impregnated with inks of those who held love. Words, weaving tales of a land from far off, of people I know or once knew. Some crisscrosses, scribbles on the marginalia, darkened impressions which seem to stress on the line, conveying a longing to return. Words, written days before and yet not swayed by time. Words with their casual curves which have forgotten to age, the ripening feel that only a cat can conceal and yet, reveal.
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