Favorite Season- Sakura

Hanami is here. The pink and the hues, I hope time stands still. Watching the wind blow over a group of cherry blossom trees. On a warm sunny day, wanting to capture the moment. My heart feels them fluttering, the petals small and unique. This feeling that things will improve, and the wind will blow …

Letter

Dear Babbu, If you are reading this, it probably means you are old enough to understand death. As a child you were told that grandma is in office when she died; you were only three years old, too young to understand the meaning of the word ‘death.’ Some of my friends were very creative when …

February

Today I tripped on the footpath and stumbled, hit my knee against the hard gravel. But the first word out of my mouth wasn't 'goddammit' or some such, I still called for you. As the pain passed through my knee, my friend said I repeated it again and again, like a small child hurt on …

Notice

An ad on TV urges us to stop staring out of the window while we travel and instead shop online. Another ad asks us to stay tuned over the weekend, and be a couch potato in order to watch their shows. Do we want our teenagers to stay connected to the idiot box every weekend …

What a Man can be Must Be

Sometimes my mind becomes so heavy; it has a thousand thoughts going on. Things to do, circumstances I can’t change, people in the past - I want to multi task on at least ten things. I want to lose weight, I want to study, I want to watch my favorite TV serials, and I want …

All well laid Plans

At my son’s school on a particular day, they asked for the children to be dressed as someone from the service industry. Some children dream of being pilots, doctors, nurses, policemen and chefs so they dressed accordingly. Some children were just dressing for fun so they were the vegetable vendor, Mahatma Gandhi, or any politician. …