A bright, sunny, hot morning – I was sitting on one of the beach lounging chairs, feet put up, staring into the endless, azure expanse of the ocean stretched in front of me just across a small stretch of sand. I had been sitting here for a good part of an hour, just looking far out into the water. Sitting at a beach in this manner for hours is not a new experience for me; yet, it was different today.
It’s the end of summer, and as the school year starts post the summer break, we find many of our friends going through the phase of dropping their kids to university for the first time. Emotions that are a part and parcel of this important moment in parents’ lives have been the topic of many…
Tomorrow is Mothers’ Day. As I sipped my tea this morning, the thought of Mothers’ Day triggered a question in my head – what is motherhood? And this set off an avalanche of memories, ideas and thoughts, exploring the meaning of motherhood and how it has impacted my life. The outcome of this morning reflection is this ode (in prose) … to mothers and motherhood …
I loved physics at school; and Newton’s laws of motion was among my favourite concepts, as it helped explain so many things I saw in the real world around me. Little did I know then that these same laws that govern the world of physics also apply to the world of mental physics, something…
The English language has no dearth of beautiful adjectives that describe everything one would possibly ever want to describe. There are some adjectives however, that must go with certain nouns. It is as if they were made as pairs – blue sky, crispy fries, cosy couch, hot cuppa. These pairs have been coined as…
If the human race were to be divided into two groups – the pluckier and more spirited ones on one side and the meeker and more timid ones on the other, then I daresay I would fall into the first group. There are a few situations however, in which I get hopelessly and haplessly out…
Death – the state of being dead … when it comes, it stuns the life out of everyone around. The blow of death hits the dead person silent, reducing him from an animate, warm, bubbling, noisy living somebody to a still, cold, rigid, silent “body”. But it’s not just the dead person that this…
Chaos and frenzy …. so many here at the same time, crammed into this tight space. Moving criss-cross, fast, very fast, as if getting somewhere but not sure where; bumping into each other and most times moving on without even looking up to see who they bumped into; sometimes a rare nod of recognition…
It was heart-rending to see Steve Smith’s press conference video yesterday. A success story, a role-model, a hero reduced to zero. It was difficult to associate this diffident-looking, devastated and broken man with the swashbuckling batsman we loved. One could not help feeling very sorry. Such a sad self-inflicted turn of events for one of…
मैंने कहा – साल क्या, बस एक सीमारेखा ही तो है, चलते चलते लांघ जायेंगे… मन ने कहा – बात तो ठीक है, बस लांघते लांघते याद कर लेना – वह पल जब पिछली सीमा पार की थी, वह दौर जो गुज़रे हैं तब और अब के बीच, वह ख्व़ाब जो हकीकत बने, और वो…