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Love cannot be held
There is a proverb I read somewhere that said the best love is the one that cannot be held. 2020 pressed the pause button on our lives the way our lungs do in between an inhale and an exhale. Yet it swooshed as quickly as the air once held in your very lungs. As an…
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Untuck: Love and Longing
I wrote a guest post (poem) for Elephant Journal. It went up on their website today. The poem talks about how we need to straighten out (untuck) ourselves and sometimes our fate as well. It’s a poem about love and longing, accompanied by my favorite metaphor – changing colors of the sky. We often look…
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Gentle yet strong
To speak up in today’s world is to write on a tissue paper. Strong enough to leave an impression, gentle enough to not tear the society apart.
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That One Stroke
I started learning sketching and painting from the age of 5 and from as far as I remember, I never liked the wait between sketching and painting. I always would want to jump to the coloring part. Some years back I painted a canvas with musical instruments overlapping each other. It took me 7 days…
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Project Unfathomability
The first project of Mix Match – Unfathomability It talks about how humans are a source of abundance, and how they are so much more than things that can be defined! The project is a Mix Match of Poetry, Dance and Music. Check out the video below! The Story of Unfathomability goes something like this…
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Orange and Teal
The warmth of orange folds like sand into the wave of teal. The icyness of certain people keep drowning the warmth not noticing they don’t have to, as even they are from the same palette. The icyness and warmth are complementary, creating depth for each other. Both are required in equal proportions in people. And…
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Till When?
It almost surprises me how we all as humans are so quick to adapt, and yet fear ‘change’ the most. We feared the change in our routines when pandemic first started. And now look at all of us sitting on our beds surrounded by muffled noise of the television, unkempt blankets, tangled charging wires, the…
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How many mothers?
How many mothers do you have? I tried but I lost the count. My fingers fall short when I try to remember all the people who expressed their motherly love towards me. You see I have two mothers in my house, one my mom and other my sister. She has been accompanying me in the…
Sugar Words 