Ode to Lovers

This is an ode to loversLovers who create stormThe people for whomRebellion is the norm Making the world as we knowLike birds making their nestPenning words out of their soulTaking bullets on their chest Scientists, mathematicians, BuddhasRebels who usurp the…
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What Art & Creativity Means To Me

इक शहंशाह ने दौलत का सहारा ले करहम ग़रीबों की मोहब्बत का उड़ाया है मज़ाक़ – साहिर लुधियानवी These lines by Sahir are from his poem ताज-महल. Often the Taj…
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Reflecting Back At Pulchowk Campus

“As little as you want to write when you’re happy, that’s how much you have to write when you’re miserable”, quotes Brian Bloom in movie ‘5 to 7’. Today is…
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Taller Stronger Sharper

“Taller, stronger, sharper”, No, this is not a Horlicks promotion. These are the three qualities a guy doesn’t want his girlfriend or future wife to have. And there is “older”…
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सच कर दो

आज सुबह देखा जो ख़्वाबसच कर दोख़्वाब में वो हुस्न-ए-महताबसच कर दोहुस्न-ए-महताब से मुलाकातसच कर दोमुलाक़ात में हुई जो बातसच कर दोबातों से पैदा हुए जज़्बातसच कर दोजज्बातों ने थामा…
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Staying Postive?

“Stay positive!”They sayI doubtI lookAt the most fundamental unitAn atomContains three kinds of particlesPositive, neutral, and negativePositivity is at the centreHeavy, tight and denseSettled, in stagnationNegativity is lighterFreer and slickNegativity…
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Chocolate

In a world fond of ‘chocolate flavoured’I happen to be chocolate coloured Chocolate flavour isAmong the favouritesIn the world of human foodChocolate colour whereasOn human skinSuffers the wrathOf unequal humanhood…
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Nothing New To Say

I have nothing new to sayI am just trying to say thingsIn my way Same old stories of love and despairOf self-destructions beyond repair There’s nothing I can writeWhich has previously not been written aboutAnd that sometimes scares meDo I…
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A Night at the Hospital

The time was 3 pm. “Your body is burning up” panicked Ankit’s Nani, his mom’s mother. Ankit had just arrived at home 2 hours before his school’s usual closing time. He…
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Addiction

This heartburnExcruciating painI am addicted to itAnd I crave it againFollowed by regretEverytimeThis process of stirring upAnd settling down of sufferingCovering up the heart with sadnessLike dust covers the leaves…
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