The Idea-smithy

July 11, 2006.
The last time I said, “See you in half an hour” and got onto a train, believing it.
The last time I saw train compartments plastered with only ads for spurious products and hormonal graffitti.
The last time a guy weighed down with a bag struggled to get in and I actually sympathised.
The last time I [...]

I saw this girl on a train. I couldn’t see anything of her, shrouded as she was in her traditional garb. But her hands caught my attention…they were so enticing. This then, is my ode to a stranger’s sensuality.
~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~

To touch and feel
Hold..clasp….grab….clutch
and smoothen
Not for me, however.
Sheathed and protected
Demure, ladylike, unobtrusive
One mightn’t even suspect
The same sensuality [...]

Trrring…the alarm sounds
Time to get up and run
Smiled to myself while brushing my teeth
My 32 smooth creamy white pearls gleaming through the white froth
While the jingle of some toothpaste ad played the background score
To the bathroom drama
I’m racing…flying the kilometers to the station
While the minutes hand on my clock laboriously traces the millimeters to the [...]

When people ask me, “Born and brought up here?”, I have to pause to think how to answer them best. I’ve settled for the bombastic and somewhat pretentious sounding “Born in the Capital and grew up in Island City.”
Its an odd feeling to belong to two different places simultaneously like this. Just like our relationships [...]