Looking For Light
Light. It’s an idea I’ve yet to wrap my head around, a word I’m still to learn to spell right, a reality that I still don’t entirely fathom.
Light. It’s an idea I’ve yet to wrap my head around, a word I’m still to learn to spell right, a reality that I still don’t entirely fathom.
We’ve spoken. You’ve looked at me and I, at you. You probably thought of me later.
In 2009, the BMC, Mumbai’s civic body invited citizens to come paint the walls of an arterial road abutting the railway track. Home.
Mumbai defines me and in my being, I add to the millions that define this city.
We buy into the myth of the cold cruelty of cities. Yet, we only find our loves & friendships in strangers.
This is a writing experiment. The model in the featured image is my friend Anmol Karnik.
Eye contact. All the things it holds.
She says the city doesn’t look quite real to her. So many people. Nobody knows anyone else.
Do you remember your last kiss? Everyone remembers their first. But kisses lose significance as we get older.
I spotted this tree at the junction of a rapidly disappearing Mumbai and the greedy new city emerging in its place.