Today, I have laid out my new night suit on the bed,After carefully ironing it with rice starch.Also, I have spit-polished my leather shoe to its best wet shine.Both to…
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It was only yesterday that we had a rain over Rockland,An inundation without reservation, without inhibition.Every rain drop raced after the next as if in an eternal chase;Getting closer but…
She sits in immense grandeur in the Tulmul nag island temple, Presiding over the protection and well being of Kashmiris: She is Maharajni Khir Bhavani, Kashmir’s supreme and the newest…
July has injected a delirious torpor in me,Spinning off a drunken state of lassitude.What to do, where to go?In the throes of frozen energy Montessory Beach beckoned.Forty miles of drive…
Between the morning’s beckoningTo action to the evening ‘s relief at the survivalFrom the daylong wrestling with the worldLie corpses of a million dreams,Mutilated states of a billion half-dead hopes.The…
Evening has assumed a serene yet exciting mood,Everything is pregnant with tranquil hopefulnessAfter day’s shattering struggle with survival;To make money men would stress themselves to death. I have worn the…
Amar Singh College was a big college lying on the south-west of Srinagar,It is close to Wazir Bagh and Amira Kadal and on one end and Jehlum river flood canal…
A cup of tea is a balm to the stressed life,A replenishment of energy,A change of mood. What is the miracle in the marriageOf tea leaves and hot water?We only…
I just returned from Andover, Mass,Where I had gone to see my cousin, Surinder’s, wife, Billy,And participate in his first death anniversary.Surinder died suddenly in January of this year, at…
She came to the party like a princess, though without a crown,To win the hearts of people,But not to impress their egos. She moved around with deft grace,Working her fluid,…