Orphans stop waiting

It comes to me from time to time that moment and that conversation - a haunting weight I knew even then would leave a heavier imprint than one would've guessed. She said to me at the library as we worked on the art project how orphans stop waiting once they get used to the wait…

Sleep – a haiku

Times like these, I wishI could simply go to sleepand forget my life

On ‘pair-pressures’ and plus-ones…

Dear reader, lately, I've found myself reflecting on relationships; the covert societal pressures that influence people today, regardless of age, making puppets of those doubtful ones, with wavering courage to follow their own path, by preying on their fear of judgment and loneliness - only to lead to a society where the suppression of human…

On Divinity

There are so many among us today, who could tell us about what they believe to be the divine; and justly so, for divinity, by virtue of its flexible, interpretative nature, is something that is at once subjective and personal. Then why is it, dear reader, that this topic has been expounded to no end,…

TAJ MAHAL

Who says you celebrate love when you behold this one of the seven wonders of the worldWho says it has left a mark of hope for loversand concluded that love indeed is immortalTake off your rose hued glasses, look closeIt weeps for lost love and mourns lost hopeIt warns all lovers 'gainst attachment's woes"Till death…