Circle Of Life
“Mom, why don’t we eat grass, when plenty grows there as food?” …and a concerned cub’s query gives a Mom a serious reason to brood…
Heartbreaking Knockout!
“Maybe the most deserving, to say the least, we have been the favorites amongst all. So unbelievable was the shock to our winning streak; alas, we soared high only to fall! Perhaps a simple game was blown out of proportion, owing to the grandiosity of the event. In the face of persistent adversity, at times, …
Time never flies…
“When my flesh & my form were duly sun-kissed, my psyche had prepared for the deepest dive; when my mind was in the state of pious bliss, my humble heart had dared the meteoric rise…When the world around had failed to deliver what was wished, all left were those dreamy-closed eyes; a moment thus revisited …
The 2nd Second Chance
Strange things happen when one goes to bed—anticipating rendezvous with unrealized dreams; from the forgotten past, sometimes dreary shadows are conjured upon, and sometimes one is dragged to the world—unseen… Big Bobby, who had been a proud multiple role player when in his prime, but surely wasn’t glad to be a run-down someone in his …
Gautam
Someone has very rightly said:‘The first-hand experiences of a writer often become his treasured intellectual inventory; if he tells the truth, he doesn’t need a good memory to write a story!’ Well, this is a story of a ‘forty-year-old–wannabe’ who has always been fascinated by the notion of how a story unfolds; ever since his …
Cometh the hour, cometh the man
Amid the chaos and absolute bedlam, he becomes someone who could only can; his courage is as contagious in his fans, as his character exudes his plans…It never mattered howsoever he begins, you see, so with the same belief he himself began; an extraordinary game for one memorable night and an occasion inched with a …
Year’s Souvenir…
‘Envisioned this year to be promising for some reason, but months from ‘Jan to March’ had received a jolting hiccup; nothing & Noone had come into season sadly, and the trade of a wannabe failed to pick up…The warmth of ‘summers’ though added a little spice of variety, but his response to the golden chance …
The Scapegoat…
Yes, he dropped it! But showed his character when ‘seven’ were needed off six; what about the most experienced bowler in the squad who leaked ‘nineteen’ despite owning the bag of tricks… Eh??? Catches win matches, yes! But, the game wasn’t lost by virtue of that single drop; I rather feel like blaming the one …
India@75
They looted ‘fifteen times’ of what our economy dreams of becoming today—from dregs to gems, they took it all; they left our ‘trad industry’ in shambles, we couldn’t help it, alas, in their court was the ball!An ‘Independent India’ was born this day—but it was desperate, drained, and divided; the state in which we found …
More than Rakhi…
Bigger the better, and to make a statement shinier ones used to be the choice;and the more the number of ‘Rakhis’ on my wrist the more I used to rejoice…Rakshabandhan was the most special festival—for the least number of holidays demanded higher intensity of celebration;there was much more to it than just reinforcing sister-brother relations…No …
Darling Rain and Unfaithful Clouds…
“When small clouds join and thicken, we ought to expect rain; a curdly sky won’t leave the earth long dry and in pain…Rain from ‘south’ prevents the drought, but rain from ‘west’ is always the best; a cloud with a round top & flat base carries rainfall often on its face…If heavy dew lingers on …
The Playground
“Some to breath out of their suffocating cubicles, some to dodge those numbing numbers, and some come out to just clear their heads about how to choose the ‘right words’…Sometimes, the best conversations happen amongst such groups of misfits, where silly becomes fun, and only laughter is preferred; nothing matches the height of contentment tough …
What matters the most?
“If a healthy mind is a ‘Reflection of God’ then a healthy body is a sanctum that serves as a host; nothing else matters more in the end than this very half of what matters the most…So neither to boast nor to inspire, it’s just the face-off with an ‘unfinished business’ that kept haunting me …
Road Rage
“It’s for the grown ups who don’t wanna grow old despite increasing age; It’s for the trapped who always hope for a broken cage… It’s for the performers who always find themselves on some sort of testing stage; It’s for the placated beings who don’t seem angry but are often enraged… It’s to celebrate those …
Higher Stakes…
“If ‘ifs & buts’ were ‘candy & nuts’, we’d all have a merry Christmas; you lost your chance when you had it, dear Puss, that’s where the gates of opportunity shut… I am sorry!If ‘ifs & buts’ were ‘jelly & jam’, we’d all be duly damned; no one truly values the sweetness of success until …
Forests Forever…
Plant a sapling on the abandoned lands, for the reuse for good can be as good as something gets discovered; nothing else can guard better the vulnerable humanity of this modern age, than the verdant forests with its ‘green cover’! Plant a sapling to retain your human hood, you morons, for biodiversity today has no …
The Wannabe…
One fine morning the paths of two avid seekers happened to have crossed; both were accustomed to such strange encounters where none could avoid the other by just stepping across…They found themselves stuck amid a classic situation where the disobeyed was to be understood as disrobed; so, each one had to hold his ground firm …
World Wildlife Day 2022
Image source: https://twitter.com/WildlifeDay?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor “A creature of habit does the same thing in the same way; the excuses so far given by we humans are often stereotyped or cliched…In this age of humans, the predator in wild is now threatened along with its prey; the wildlife today looks in desperate anticipation to atleast have a little say…Remember, …
#TWOSDAY
“Once upon a time there lived a ‘curious boy’ with the mindset of openness and wonder; he was destined to be on an ever-lasting exploration, in his quest of calming his inherent storming thunder… His chance to ‘catch the lightning in the bottle’ though was as little as one has against the loaded dice; his …
Presumed: ‘Unpairable Misfits’…
“One preferred to be puzzled by the’Sudoku’, while the other had a thing with ‘Crosswords’; if one was an acclaimed ‘mathemagician’, the other was no lesser good with ‘words’…”
The Manuscript
“There was no other way around to contain his free spirit, and there was no better way to get along with this ‘lock-down’; he has just luckily found a place to fit in, you see, the place where he only wished he belonged… He had to turn down his moderation in favor of some fervid …
Finding The Lost Ground…
“Mamaji, how far is ‘Mehetwara’ now?”Couldn’t dare to give the right answer, Mamaji wondered how to cater to the sought enlightenment; so, all that pensive man could come up with, in that tense moment, was one default acknowledgment: “Not too far, Deepu bete, we are nearly there.”Mamaji answered in a reserved yet reassuring tone; knowing …
‘Simhavalokan’… Happy New Year 2022!
“Just keep on doing the needful, whatever it takes; nothing can stop one, you see, who learns from his past mistakes…For an optimist, it is advisable not to dwell in the past; yet frequenting there becomes necessary to make sure that the reasons that cast a shadow don’t remain to last…As we move forward in …
Honest Confessions…
“Writing has just been a hobby, you see, but I never knew that it would turn out to be an absorbing vocation; the inspiration is all I have started seeking in, ever since no better expression was to be found than honest confessions…” praveen
Cold Rage
“Every act of life has started becoming a cause of discomfort now, with my apparent disarmed rage; every living thing around me seems to have picked up speed or perhaps I have just aged… Quite tired of carrying the load of these onerous wrinkles, but the spirit to live is still high; I am ‘The …
The Different Frame
“Every other day seems so important, you see, yet only a handful of events are trackable down one’s memory lane
Marriage Anniversary
“We have successfully avoided worthless provocations to steer clear off the general unbecoming; we are learning everyday to find the ‘completeness’ in one-another’s shortcomings…
#The_Matriarch
#The_Matriarch “We are huge in size, you see, but surprisingly getting reduced to a number that is increasingly growing small; I have happened to come across some twisted rules of engagement, lately, of an unbecoming brawl… It’s very easy to declare those mistakes as ‘silly’, with a wisdom-laden ‘hind sight’; today, standing at the precipice …
An Embarassing Refuge!
‘An Embarassing Refuge’! “I happened to be the proud ruler of the jungles by being the ‘Queen of masquerade’; that kingdom once was in a Natural Habitat—a ‘Shady Sylvan Glade’… Then came the contender—you humans—needing to mark their respective range of influence, but for that to happen, every former belief was to be rearranged; …
#Maya: Not a Maneater by choice!
#Maya Picture Sourced: The Hindu “I am T-12, popularly known as Maya… Sadly, it was you who said I am beautiful despite my deadly claws, and you only suggested that I am magnificent in spite of my killer jaws; it was you who declared me the ‘Queen of this …