Dear Sauru, I could sense the undercurrent of anguished hope in your words. Believe me when I say that I understand and identify with you radically. What is our choice in life? I can’t advise or tell you a way on how to go about it. Rather I can just share on how I’m going […]
Ek Safal Zindagi
एक नए उत्साह के साथ ये पत्र आपने खोला होगा। ये जानते हुए की इसका मन ही मन इंतज़ार (बेशक़ चेतन भाव से नहीं) कुछ अरसे से हो रहा था। इसका कारण ये नहीं कि ऐसा कोई ख़याल या वाकया नहीं हुआ जो बताने योग्य नहीं था। दरअसल ऐसा बहुत कुछ था और जिसे व्यक्त ना करने […]
‘Underground Man!’
Dear Henry, I’m glad you asked for my thoughts about the ‘underground man’. Now that I think, it seems that since I’ve read ‘Notes from the underground’ and even performed it in a sense on stage, I’ve always wanted to share what I feel about him. Personally I would’ve loved to talk about him with […]
‘I seek a Way’
Dear Ashu, I got your message, although very brief and small, but I could feel the copious emotions immersed in those two lines. Even in the short talk we had before that, over the phone, you were not succinct in what you wanted to say. Well, even if that wasn’t so, you have always held […]
Depression!!? Don’t fight it! Nurture it!
What’s wrong? ‘Nothing’ is wrong! Well, before I start off with what I have to say, I’m inclined to mention, however briefly, who am I! Blessed with a wonderful and loving family, surrounded by friends who instil hope and inspiration in me on every step and at regular intervals whenever needed, have been provided for […]
Accursed Me!
It is spectacular to see the way by which you are leading your life, I guess perhaps the whole genesis of this temporal existence lies in your excellent finesse to subsist under this system. I often empathise with my accursed soul which relentlessly tries to shed away the very thought of my dearest folks and […]
The Dunces!
In the midst of this placid state, remains hidden incognito, a fervour in some. They saunter around looking like a dunce but hold their ken hidden deep within, waiting for the opportune moment when their ideas take a fully formed contour, for that will be the time, when obliquity of the prevailing system will be […]
Mortified!
I remain motionless sitting in my car, gazing up at your window. Maybe by any miraculous chance the curtains slide and i catch your glimpse, then would come a gesture implying you’ll be beside me any moment now. That moment doesn’t arrive and it may never, it seems. I wander around at all those places […]
Mirage!
One may wonder, even if it is for one brief moment, ‘what is it that I am supposed to do, and that what I’m doing, is it supposed to be? And even if what I do is a forlorn attempt to escape this question, isn’t it that this is what I was supposed to do?’ […]
The Prayer Of A Dead Soul
Crucify me for my sins, As it is I’m way to old… But send me back my mirror twin, Hear this prayer of my dead soul!! Anticipated judgement is on its way, From angels for I’ve been told… God is dead; whoever says, See Yourself!! How he hears the prayer of a dead soul!! Magnanimous […]