Vignettes of an old puja are embedded in me. I feel it now, when it has arrived again and I’m listening to the songs that were released around that time. That cheap blue hair gel, that girl. People keep telling me to just throw it all away for ever from inside me, and I know too that it …
Category: Views and Observations
Success and Failure
You humankind, you put too much weight on success. It’s not your fault entirely, that’s how you’re wired. You need to eat, live, have a shelter and make a few babies. And if possible, degrees, a phone, a car, a vacation… of course you need to believe in success and set much store by it. …
Transitions
I saw a dead animal lying on the street today. Near a busy bend. It was a small animal, about the size of a cat. I think it was a cat, but it might have been a young dog. It had clearly been run over or pressed to the road in some other way. This …
The Handshake Hours
When the clock strikes 12, the hour and minute hands exactly line up with each other. Are there other times when this handshake happens? We could say six-thirty, but nope, the hour hand is a little further than the half-hour mark. Not a quarter past three, the hour hand is ahead. Not a quarter to nine, the hour hand …
Thoughts
The only thing that’s missing in this gift of life is an essential ingredient: a constant reminder of how precious it is. But is life precious only because we are living? Then I woke up. Suddenly, I was irreversibly awake. And the reality that I saw, I had always known it — deep …
One Life 