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Half Moon!

न जाने क्यों, मुझे उस ढलती शाम के अधूरे चाँद से अलग ही प्यार है. * Somehow, I brace a different kind of love for that half moon, advancing the evening.   PS:I know I could have never come up with an English translation, sounding almost the same as the Hindi version; still worth aContinue reading “Half Moon!”

Seven B&W Photos; Day 2

  This is a picture of Swaminarayan Temple, Gondal, Gujarat. I love Swaminarayan Temples for it’s sanctity, peace, and the calm which I feel nowhere else. Their structure, their ambiance gives me the kind of feeling which I have no place else. The only place where I can go and can avoid any form ofContinue reading “Seven B&W Photos; Day 2”

Tug of war

They bundled me up, separated me from all my other friends and tied up a knot on me. I was suffocated. Hadn’t they ever heard of claustrophobia? I wanted to breathe, to smell the ‘exotic Indian air’, to cherish the gone moments, to smile through the troubles but they wouldn’t just leave me alone. TheContinue reading “Tug of war”

A verse, from- Ramcharitmanas

“Dekhan bag kunwar dui aye, vay kishor sab bhaati sahaye, Shyam aur kimi kaho bakhani, gira anyan nayan binu bani.” * The couplet is taken from Tulsidas’s “Ramcharitmanas” The sakhis (friends) tell Sita about the place where they saw Ram and Laxman and that they were in their youth and that they both were darkContinue reading “A verse, from- Ramcharitmanas”