Fear
Looking back at my life, I find I have no regrets. Success and failure are mere subjective concepts. Do not mistake me for some kind of a grungy loser. It is just that I find such dualities frivolous....
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Me: Some one said that people who changed the course of history exhibited a rare symbol of their nature when they were born.. Chanakya had a complete set of teeth when he was born.. Genghiz Khan had a...
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The extremes that I see within myself sometimes frightens me. One moment I am brimming with life and have an overwhelming sense of compasssion and belonging to the world. Love, peace, brotherhood,...
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When was the last time you looked at someone in the eye and smiled not just with your lips but also with your heart??
View ArticleVande Mataram!
It's been 61 years since our forefathers first inhaled the air of independence. On the nidnight of August 14th, 1947, Nehru had then mentioned in his famous "Tryst with Destiny" speech that India was...
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Through the evening air, I hear a soft prayer from a woman,Which pulls me to a score years behind now, and I see A child sitting peacefully in his mother's lap, immersed in the voice of her simple...
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The only gift that true love can give is tears-simple, pure and pristine.Stop them not. Let them flow incessantly.They will take you to the ocean of oneness; where no dualities exist.There is only...
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Lights go off here and thereChopin stops playing.No more flourishes.T'is quiet.The table catches my eye.An orange peel, a burnt candle,Loose change and Eliot's Wasteland,A fallen beetle wanders over...
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Two at the same time..
Gave in to the amateur painter in me.. A work in paintbrush on a lazy day in office...The one burning in the pyre and in floating drowned in the stream are the same.. How it is possible? It's a koan in...
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Next one..
Yet another painting..This one is a representation of a painting which I had seen on the cover of a twenty year-old Readers' Digest Magazine.. Don't know what the title is..
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The elementary me...
Think I'm getting addicted to Paintbrush...a momentary surrender to vanity.. :-)
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When am I me???
5.00 am - 9.00 am - Age 95 9.00 am - 9.30 am - Age 27 9.30 am - 1.30 pm - Age 601.30 pm - 2.00 pm - Age 132.00 pm - 4.00 pm - Age 34.00 pm - 9.00 pm - Age 609.00 pm - 9.30 pm - Age 279.30 pm - 11.00...
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He went to the pool that evening at 7. He preferred that hour by when all the loud-mouthed college kids who played water-polo would be gone and only a few office-goers come to swim away the day's...
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Karan gets the budget... (With due apologies to a certain Pranab Mukherjee)
There was bickering that morning and hissingIn the Finance Ministry; for the budget planFor the country was suddenly found "missing"From the Minister's computer."Without the planWhat will we do?" the...
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It happened one night..
The darkness only added to the pain of running over sharp stones and pebbles.Judging by the dampness and slight slipperiness underneath my feet, I knew they were bleeding. Sharp stumps thrashed my legs...
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Tears, idle tears.Long has the moment passedBut linger does the pain - Cold, stinging and metallic.I now live and die in every breath. Your portrait with my heart's dye Lies unfinished. Memories haunt...
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He stood watching the "Just Married" sign fade away into the distance. After what seemed like an eternity, he turned around to walk, only to see his room mate leaning on a lamp post and watching him...
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Long has the moment passed..but linger does the pain -Cold, stinging and metallic..ripe and raw and heavy;As the ears start to see... and the eyes listen,I live and die in every breath...Becoming and...
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