Always Make Room For The Flowers
This picture was shot by a sweet young photographer at an Open Mic event in 2012 when she spotted the flowers I was carrying.
Nostalgia
BOOK REVIEW: Rust & Stardust-T Greenwood: Stars Under The Rust
Reading ‘Rust & Stardust’ (a true crime account that inspired the fiction book ‘Lolita’) helped me process old trauma.
Spring-Cleaning For The Soul
I’m surrounded by question marks, in the shape of expensive gifts from you. I’ve discarded the funny, the cheesy, the lighthearted lines like you’ve done our laughs. But what about the Parisian box of songs? La vie en rose may as well be a life of thorns. I don’t like…
A Story That Wrote Me
This has been a year of such drastic changes and shifts that my whole outlook has been the here and now – surviving these. But I am a creature of nostalgia and the past doesn’t impede me. It teaches me, it nurtures me and it gives me fodder for the…
Aren’t You Glad I’m Not Carrie?
I read ‘Carrie’ by Stephen King. In the same week, I received an invitation to a school alumni meet.
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My First Publisher: Performing at LitCon 2015, Mithibai college
Tuesday was really special. I had a chance to perform at Mithibai college’s LitCon festival. The alma mater makes everything a magical experience. Even though the building has changed beyond recognition, it has echoes of my adolescent self, climbing out of windows, sneaking vada-paos into chemistry labs, reading books hidden…
When A Writer Falls Silent
Writing is not healing. It’s catharsis. What does that portend for the person under the writer?
G for Gym Rat
I hit the gym today for my first personal training session. And it brought up a sweet memory of a college crush.
F for Four Year Old Lessons
This is something I wrote at one of Rochelle’s workshops. I haven’t edited it too much and I might consider performing it. Then again, once I put it out there, I might not need to anymore. This is a delayed poem for the April 2015 A to Z Challenge. ~O~O~O~O~O~ Four…
#SixWordStories: February 13th
Happy anniversary, lover.Happy anniversary, liar.