The month that was… As I write this at midnight, my loved ones are busy beating the heat and dust in the land of daytime. Tonight is special; I have completed a month in this land of nights (and knights in jacket and boots).This possibly is the farthest I could be from them while living […]

The brown rudraksh rosary bead hung floppily from one of the blood-stained prongs of the dual-pronged metal stand resembling an over-sized tuning fork. A painted human skull lay at the base along with some wilted red hibiscus; forehead of the skull smeared in vermillion and ashes. Few burning pyres were visible indistinctly; the curly ashen […]

The silence in the mountain air was intermittently punctuated with the long and short bursts of the sustaining glissando every time the blades ripped back-and-forth across the axis of the wooden planks. As the rays of the late afternoon sun peered from the single window of the 20 feet-by-20 feet workshop, the scattered golden wooden […]

No bus, rented cars or two-wheelers were visible; not even a donkey or a mule! From where I stood, my destination looked to be miles away up a vertical mountainside, somewhere up in the clouds. The wispy grey haze, freefall of heavy drizzle accompanied by the turmoil of ominous clouds, obscuring vision, failed to challenge […]

Each one of us have either a living, non-living or a dead entity in our life which is a symbolism of ourunique existence and quintessential to our growing up. Something like, what you call a Totem. I havelong thought about my own and have floundered for answers. Last evening the moment-of-truthsuddenly stumbled upon me as […]