I have been watching the sunset again. Observing how it takes a dip in the sea coloring the sky orange. I’m waiting for you Waiting to walk into the darkness together As the sun bids me goodbye it reminded me of you that even though you were leaving I still watched. Hoping, maybe this time […]
मेरी Ordinary सी ज़िन्दगी के सबसे Extraordinary हीरो- Happy Father’s Day
Father’s Day जैसा कुछ है आज. पापा के बारे में ऐसा क्या लिखूं जो कभी कहा नहीं गया हो. कोई कविता, कोई कहानी, कोई किस्सा, कोई कोट कुछ भी तो नया नहीं. पिता , जिनका होना भर ही कितना सुकून देता है. आहूत से पिता को देखा है, अपने दोस्त जैसे पापा को भी और […]
Dear Kate Spade, i hope you are at peace now
Dear Kate As usual i was having an anxious night battling my demons when a push notification came on my phone about Kate Spade’s suicide, and I felt a rush of vertigo. I had to almost go lie down on bed to steady myself, had to take a few deep breaths. I was introduced to you […]
An open letter to parents of people fighting depression
Back to blogging after a long time, just that i avoid writing these days. But yesterday a phone conversation and today when i read about a letter of regret by a father who didn’t ask his son to come back, i sat down to write this. I am usually a very private person when it […]
इंतज़ार……..#OctoberMovie
इंतज़ार तुम्हारे कुछ कहने का कह कर भूल जाने का इंतज़ार सर्दियों में तुम्हारी उँगलियों के ठिठुरने का और काफी के भाप में तुम्हारा अलाव ढूँढने का इंतज़ार पहाड़ के अंतिम छोर पर टिके चाँद का और उसके साथ चलने वाले अकेलेपन का इंतज़ार लहरों के जाने के बाद लौट आने का यूँ जाते वक़्त […]
I don’t look like “married”…….but how does that bother you?
Few days back a woman came to me for treatment who had encountered multiple fractures because of domestic violence. After crying for half an hour about his alcoholic husband, she asked me “You are married recently na? Why don’t you look like one?” I asked her “Why do you apply this thick sindoor”. “For security,” […]
P.S. I Love You #WorldBookDay
Someday there will be a notebook A notebook with tattered pages A notebook with Eiffel on the cover A notebook picked up from an old bookseller Because picking notebook was a habit A habit he happily obliged Because she thought she will write She will write love songs Love songs not about tall promises Love […]
Those Moments
Those Moments Like ordering everything on the menu Just to watch you try to make me eat it all Forgetting everything that shouldn’t be And getting your call to get s reminder Those Moments of endless talks Trying unsuccessfully to flirt my way So that you get the clue Those moments Like finally having the […]
Postcard from P – Don’t let go of your “typewriter”
Dear little boys and girls Today i write a postcard to you where i talk about “your” typewriter. You know you will grow up reading, listening to the fact that you shouldn’t get attached to little things. Clinging on is a negative word, so i won’t use that. But you know, setting up little goals […]