Spinal Shock


Musings

Sometimes you find shock when you don’t expect. The kind of shock that creeps up slowly on you, and jolts you like a tender bucket of coffee dumped on a sleeping brain in the middle of the darkest hour of night. I went to Copyscape. Entered this blog address there. Why? I don’t know. An […]

August 11, 2010

Looking or Going


Musings

When you look at the surfaceYou wish to go deeper When you go deeperyou only findwhat was always on the surface Is it how you look? Or how far you go?

August 11, 2010

Weighing Scales


Musings

I weighed myself today. And found I was still the same. Those scales though only measure the body. For if they were to measure the mind, then they would find, That I dropped 10 pounds off today.

August 10, 2010

Pickled Poetry


Musings

Ragged edgeson a serrated knifecan cause no harmunless they meetyour hand. Knives are harmless. Unless they meet skin. People are harmless. Unless they meet skin. Or so you think. People are harmless unless they meet skin, or unless they meet mind. Ragged edgesof people’s mindscan cause all harmeven when they nevermeet your heart Dedicated to […]

August 10, 2010

An Encounter


Musings, Short Stories

Life came to me the other day, and said,”Hey! what’s the matter?” Perplexed, I asked in return, “What? Nothing is the matter.” So life asked me, “Why then are you walking with your back so bent and your head so bowed? Is it humility?” I laughed. “Humility? You would need to have something that you […]

August 10, 2010

Unknown Reaches


Musings

Today, I received a mail from a stranger. A good friend of mine once passed on this quote to me: there is no such thing as strangers, only friends never met. That quote has stayed in my head and today I was reminded of it again. This stranger stumbled across an article of mine on […]

August 8, 2010

When a Dream Fails


Musings

The other day, Serena Williams, that wonderful athlete won Wimbledon, and declared that it pays to believe in one’s dreams. Those words sound inspiring. All the more inspiring when you stand on the green hallowed lawns of the most famous tennis court in the world, holding the most cherished trophy in tennis history. Dreams seem […]

July 13, 2010

The Ethics of Being Indian


Everyday

This a rant post. Or a rave post. It’s a bit of both. But for a change I am not cribbing about my life. Nor am I musing about its changes. No, for a change, all I have to ask here is for some change. This might anger ‘patriotic’ Indians, but it’s a democracy, right? […]

July 7, 2010

The Inscrutable Reason for Living


Musings

The dark clouds from the window seem almost a reflection of my own life. Never have I felt so like more like wandering to those very same clouds and plummeting down in a deep delicious fall to the ground. Life, they say, is very vast. But how is it that living it in a coffin […]

June 14, 2010