The Definition

The Definition

Love, my grandmother tells me, is the flower she sees every morning on her bedside table after granddad’s morning walk. She tells me it’s the toffee she hands out to the crying child at home. The view of her garden after a rain, and the perfect cup of tea made by my mother, is what love is. Love, she says, doesn’t conform to one person alone. Love, my father tells me, is the smile of my mother…

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To Be Or Not To Be...Is That The Question?

To Be Or Not To Be…Is That The Question?

Ever looked at the sky and wondered what is the meaning of life? Ever saw your crush and thought the breeze was a little stronger that day? Ever wished that someone would buy you a drink when you’re at the bar? Ever wore a dupatta and hoped it would get stuck in someone’s cufflinks? Ever passed in an exam without effort and failed miserably in the one you studied tirelessly for?  If you answered…

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Paradox

It’s a world of precise carelessness and fiery indifference, of secure abandonment and profound nonchalance, of teeming scarcity and not enough availability.  And in this world of paradoxes, meeting you doesn’t seem so strange anymore. After all, conforming to the norm has never been my forte, be it falling in love with the right person or giving it my all to make it work. And yet, when the world…

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Four

Four dolls to be lined up in an order only she understood, one after the other, with her brother’s toy trucks some distance away because girls play with pinks, not blues. Four glasses to be filled with water in the kitchen, one after the other, with her brother’s books kept on a high shelf because girls balance trays, not equations. Four dresses to be tried on for the party, one after the other,…

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I Saw India Walk Today

I Saw India Walk Today

I saw India walk today. Not in the form of some technological development, not as a rocket mission going successful. Not in the face of global recognition, not in the reach of highways and schools. At the most basic, grass root level of our existence, I saw India walk today. Clutching hands with it’s oft forgotten past, reminding me that I haven’t seen it all, not really, not yet. I watched as…

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An Ode To Her

“I won’t kill her as she sleeps beside me, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think about it.” Whenever someone asks me about my relationship with my sister, this one line sums it all up perfectly. And I may or may not be gagging as I say this ridiculously sappy thing, but for what she’s worth, somewhere in the deep recesses of my heart, I do love her. Because you know, you gotta love that person who…

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