Do I have a choice?

"How can we do this? This is equivalent to committing a fraud on the customers", the banker sounded desperate. "Mr. Singh, we had protected you in the Kachwala case, when the customer filed a suit against the bank". "That was an unintentional error on my part, not a premeditated crime". "The bank had borne the litigation … Continue reading Do I have a choice?

Toying Emotions

Her heart sank on seeing the charred, blackened toys. It appeared that catastrophe had struck in her absence. She rushed inside to see if her baby was safe. She was greeted with his twinkling eyes and soiled hands. Look, Ma! I made those toys from mud and clay. Just like the ones Dad bought me…. … Continue reading Toying Emotions

A Flash of Lightning

Claustrophobia surrounds me blocking escape from limiting environs.   Crowds stare With uncomprehending eyes I feel relieved that they cannot read the recesses of my mind.   Lightning flashes amidst clusters of stars and zillions of raindrops. It perishes with a blast feared and misunderstood.   I wait for thought energy to be channelized in … Continue reading A Flash of Lightning

The Wisdom of the Infinite

I put together fluidity needed to meet the universe but flowing water cannot stay together, it just moves.   My experiments now look so inadequate in laboratories. Knowledge can never replace Wisdom of the soul and earth.   My revered books are sliced reality infinite insights lie out there beyond the telescope lens.   Nature … Continue reading The Wisdom of the Infinite

Meeting Fate On the Way

Are you ready for action? The blue yoga pants and the matching shoe laces in the sneakers indicated that style and fitness consciousness had come together in the personality of this beautiful girl. It did not matter where the same pair of feet had been before. She had trekked in the Himalayas, met a handsome … Continue reading Meeting Fate On the Way

Fluid Reflections

The memorial built in the middle of nowhere intrigued me. Was it meant to signify a union with the elements, or a figurative spot where the departed souls wanted to be? Right on the horizon – in between sky and earth, water and clouds, life and death, light and dark …. I saw the fluidity … Continue reading Fluid Reflections

The Relationship Graph

Five Haikus forming a poem Caressing your hair my thoughts teasing your mind The wind pleases me.   I wait for it to blow in reverse directions becoming a tornado   unbalancing you forcing an about turn looking back to feel   what just passed through you? what it means in the long term? Evaluation…. … Continue reading The Relationship Graph

Time Travel

It was the writer’s destiny to have met the legendary cosmonaut and time traveller. Their association continued, as she wrote her book, sitting besides his tomb in the graveyard, taking tips on his occasional visits to meet her.   Source of inspiration: Ten Time Travellers caught on tape Two sentence story for Sammi Cox Cover … Continue reading Time Travel