Kaleidoscope

Sarees are incredibly sensuous in themselves for their texture, colours and fluidity. Today was all about light and colour and the many moods of shimmering, colour shifting and spilled memories from long ago. A kaleidoscopic day so here goes… Kaleidoscope the mind is shifting pieces of wounds and scars to make hymns and dirges sung… Read More

A reader’s writing

I’ve been a reader since I was 8 or 9 and discovered that I could lose myself in the written word. There was no need to navigate people and situations with a book, one could live suspended in another’s world. It’s been many years and the act of reading has been a faithful one. Some… Read More

Notes on Desire

What is this desire Will it burn and consume Will it stoke and feed Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha are the purusharthas or four goals of human life and living. Each stage of life, roughly estimated at 25 years was meant to be devoted to one of the goals in that order to maintain harmony in… Read More

Desire

2020 woke me up to the sounds of peacocks. 2019 was tumultuous silence. It’s difficult to make sense of a year that destroyed life as I knew it. Early on in the year, the word relentless got set as a cue and proceeded to unravel the frayed threads that were held together with the grime… Read More

A city in couplets

My poet’s out in the city Turning it into couplets Of people and their stories Mostly imagined Of trees and their lives Mostly real Of streets and their dramas Mostly crafted Of cats and their gaze Mostly experienced Of light and its play Mostly seen Of sounds and their chaos Mostly heard Of foods and… Read More

1969 -2019

The year was 1969 or thereabouts. 50 years ago, India would still have been very young in her freedom and quite poor but the handcrafted aspect of her everyday was rich, a living, breathing continuum of history, full of colour and flavour. A tiny part of that piece of culture wound up in a country… Read More