An Adventure Starts with circumstances Beginning with whatever was dealt Nothing you could have controlled Or had the chance to choose Others join in Some by chance, some by choice, some by coincidence Riding alongside you Companions, compatriots, confidants Then arrives a conflict Riddled with confusion, dilemmas and difficulties Your something precious at stake Threatened… Continue reading An Adventure
Searching for a prompt for today's poem, I wanted something that was more than a word. A thought experiment or a trigger and while browsing around, started thinking about women on screen. This poem is about some of the amazing women captured on screen. Women on screen I would want to be Striking up a… Continue reading Those women
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there". First Lines from L. P. Hartley's The Go-Between It is a hot and humid day, when the scorching earth forbids us from exploring rooftops or running wild in the streets below. With the afternoon ritual of cooking and eating complete, all children are cleverly… Continue reading Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh
In Hindu Mythology, Sagar Manthan refers to the churning of the ocean, an epic battle between devas (gods) and Asuras (demons), a myth from the Hindu epic the Bhagavata-Purana. At the beginning of this episode, the devas and asuras are lined up on opposite sides, trying to use Mount Mandara to churn the ocean in… Continue reading Jagaava
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