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Waiting

Waiting….   Unseeing eyes refusing to close, even as the world tried its best. From dawn to dusk, they stayed wide open, vacantly staring into space. slowly, a crowd gathered around the man, who wouldn’t close his eyes. And bystanders…

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Cemetery

Cemetery   She cremated her dreams today, The tombstone reads, “Here lie the misbegotten misadventures, she called “Dreams”, they lie buried under six feet of, Shattered hopes, spurned emotions, crushed feelings and unrequited love.”   Her yearning lies scattered on…

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Fallacy

Fallacy I see you In, my alarm every morning, My morning cup of tea, The newspaper, the news, The Call of the vendor in the street. The neighbour’s creaking door, Paintings on the wall, In the tiles on my floor,…

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La-La Land

La-La Land I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables…

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He walks beside me

He walks beside me…… I didn’t find my dad at home this time during my monthly visit to Malad. I looked everywhere for him but he wasn’t anywhere around. Where could he be? I thought to myself, and then it…

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My Laptop has character

My Laptop has character   It’s battered, bruised, chipped, cracked, marred, used and abused but it has a certain charm to it. It calls out to you and says, “Hey look at me, I am something special, so what if…

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Pay it forward

PAY IT FORWARD   North India is famous for it’s cycle rickshaws, the Poor man’s ride. On my husband’s voluntary retirement from his job, we shifted to Noida and these three wheelers fascinated me. Since I am steering wheel challanged,…

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