A memory

Monday, 30 April 2007, 21:47 | Category : Reflections
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Sometimes the very sight of thorns is enough to make you start aching again.

Profound connection

Sunday, 29 April 2007, 19:02 | Category : Idea ore
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A relationship is a function of caring
Not of meetings and conversations; time spent nor other people.
If we never met again, never spoke again, never ever saw each other again
If our lives never touched again, it wouldn’t make a difference
Because we have happened to each other already and nothing can change that

Love and longing in Mumbai

Thursday, 26 April 2007, 13:08 | Category : Citywatch, Poetry, Roving I
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Meet me in my dreams
Because that’s the only place I’ll let you exist
Tell me anything you like, your silliest moments, your heartfelt desires
I’ll do my best to make them true
And we’ll live through fantasy
The next morning, when I wake up in my world
And you in yours
Don’t try to hold on to me
Or even feign recognition [...]

Shoe stories

Monday, 23 April 2007, 14:18 | Category : Spectator
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Last month I wrote my first pair of wedge heels. Now that I’ve been initiated into feeling about three inches taller than I usually am, braved such jokes like…
Do you have a driver’s licence for that? I thought all hazardous transportation needed one!
and
Do you need a ladder to get onto those each morning?
…I find my [...]

The appraisal

Sunday, 22 April 2007, 19:30 | Category : Fiction
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We’re a great team!
A good partnership can only be between equals!
~o~o~o~o~o~
So how did it go?
Okay. How about you?
Not bad.
What now?
Let’s wait and see.
She didn’t tell him about her promotion.
He didn’t tell her he’d been asked to leave.
And by mutual unspoken consent,
The conversation stayed between equals.

The root of conflict

Friday, 20 April 2007, 10:37 | Category : Reflections
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The horrid thing about the world is that you’re constantly being made to be someone other than yourself. The nice thing about life is that you invariably, can’t help being yourself.
Ah, but the agony of existence!

The unpassable buck

Thursday, 19 April 2007, 14:20 | Category : Idea ore
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The consequences of your actions,
by deliberation or by indifference,
remain your responsibility.