Out and About with kamalini. Jungle Love

Hi ,am kamalini nd this journal is part of my “Travel Diaries” This Diwali ,while the city sparked and fumed with fireworks, we headed in a different direction,into tranquility and oblivion. We drove down from Bhopal to Madai , a three hour drive covering 130 km into the Satpura Tiger Reserve.Satpura named after the Satpura […]

NIGHT MUSINGS

The sky at night , a beautiful charcoal on canvas. Moments stand still, the chirping of cricket and the gusty wind , a reminder that breaks the “timeless” myth. Deep into the night, I hear the faint beat of drums and folklore,the tribals all snug near a fire,clustered together as scenes from their ancestral lives […]

MUSINGS OF DAWN

The sky at dawn, a beautiful purple, fading by the moment to a lighter hue like a healing bruise till just a tint of rose into the blue.The sun soon to be shining in all its valour and courage.Just a handful of stars still twinkling their mirth upon the rising sun as they have time […]

Hello Reader, I stopped reading the Russian book for now,needless to stay I loved the stories .I took up “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” instead.Hail Thou Blue Blooded Aryans! Who think it is their birthright to be superior and rule the world! My sympathy for Anne Frank increased ten folds. Something like Schindler’s List nd the […]

Transition

This year , it seems , we did not have the interim period just after the rains ,when it gets hot nd humid.Lord Indra decided to extend his stay on Earth.So as soon as the “splash” of raindrops faded away , we felt the nip in the air, the transition into a new season with […]

PEACE

I want to prolong this moment ,when the sun filters through the windows, the birds call nd it’s silent all around, interrupted by Ruskin(dog) trying to catch an insect hovering about,he looks cute the way he springs forward nd jumps.I will not open my social accounts ,not now .It’s too peaceful nd I want to […]

Literature and Politics

I was totally against this all through.I argued u just cannot mix nd match literature with politics!! But why this question now..i will tell you.M sitting with a book in my hand by Anton Chekhov , The Greatest Short Stories and right beside me is today’s newspaper with Russian attack on Ukraine nd pictures of […]

THE HAPPINESS PILL

You are mistaken coz there is nothing called “the happiness pill” Well, here is my story…or inner experience or whatever you might like to call it..that’s not important.. I was in my car, at the cross roads, waiting ..nd there was this little girl who was selling twinkling lights for Diwali ..like so many others […]