The day has just begun its triumphant march:Imperial, rough-shod, crusading.Its ambitions touch a pinnacle, its mood heroic.Its commonplace beginning an unintended deception.In a deft sleight of hand it quantum jumps…
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Above Picture: Me, at about the age of two, with my mother, Aruna Kaul Karihaloo, in Srinagar, Kashmir. I woke up on my birthday to find out when 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…
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…
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…
The meaning of love could be found in stars,But one does not have to go that far;The value of love could be plumbed in thedepths of one’s soul,But one does…
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…
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…
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…