Tag: life
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Your elsewhere is within you
I ache to write. And yet, words keep their distance. They hesitate to come closer, afraid of being abandoned again. Maybe they’re angry with me; for not inviting them in. For not letting them fly in through the window, as the relentless grey Berlin sky continues to growl and glower. I haven’t seen the sun…
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Proof of Existence
I had to find my birth certificate today. We were in the middle of some paperwork when this unexpected request was made, and I had to rummage through my Google Drive to retrieve it. So you’re telling me, as a functional human being who’s very much alive, I need to carry around a piece of…
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If Baba Planned His Own Farewell Party
He would have planned ahead. Like he always did. He would have retrieved his hardbound notebook and made a guest list first. His ball pen leaving tiny blobs of ink on the paper as he wrote. Baba was all about plans and schedules. Obviously, there would have been a time-table for everyone to follow. He…
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Benaam
वो कहते हैं हमें उस ही तरह जाना है, जिस तरह हम आये थे अकेले, बेनाम, बेबस, बेख़याल, बेबाक हमारा वजूद एक दिन मिटटी में मिल जायेगा तो किसी भी चीज़ पे जज़्बात बर्बाद करके क्या फ़ायदा? बात तो सही कहते हैं वो आखिर आज कल हर काम फ़ायदे के लिए ही होता है हर…
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Tossed Salads & Scrambled Eggs
Well, well, well. A moment of silence for all my grandiose plans of updating my blog timely. It seems the older I get, the more difficult it gets to express my truest emotions. It’s as if my thoughts are getting chunkier, and the sieve of my mind, finer. When I read my old posts, it…