Slithering between nature’s beautifully sculpted mountains on coffee-colored plateaus. The afternoon hot air was followed. Each rock was like artist’s private property who had chiseled imagination into a masterpiece. After a steady ascent for about 40 minutes, a group of
When you’re thrilled to see a kaleidoscope of butterflies, you know you’re in trouble. This wasn’t difficult. I didn’t have to pick a name from Pinterest’s “10 places you must…”. I didn’t have to backpack across one of those exotic
Rampaging through cold stillness, the swift tracks of this animal left no marks behind. As the morning mist broke against its face, it charged ahead to its determined destination, with no looking back. Not yet at least. It were
I am a leaf. I am a leaf let loose in the woodlands of consciousness. You can wrench your head high because you take young morning walks or meditate ascetically, or because you think you admire trees more than others,
(Bell rings) Mom: “aayiye” Two boys, Suraj and Santosh aged 10 and 12, enter the house carrying loaded schoolbags. Mom (to Santosh, the older one): “Waah. Tumhara bracelet bahaut achha hai” Suraj: “Yeh bracelet nahi hai. Kutte ka patta hai”
As your flight from the Mumbai airport upraises into a crest of comfort, you can sight the adjoining public squalor around the runway. And you cower. Go to Gurgaon’s swish sky-scrapers’ construction sites and right in the middle of the
When you are the lovechild of a theist, deist, agnostic AND an atheist, you can’t blame your genes when you are caught in a state of moral abidance and your morale is rolling with your eyes. Stones are turned sacred
Traveling in the Mumbai local is like shopping at the seasonal bridal dress clearance sale in New York. Merciless. Before war, all ladies are poised and peaceful and lady-like. They saunter with sophistication and sporadically peep up to see which
The depth of dignity we cascade to our heroes is unfortunately more partisan than preferential. When it comes to looking up to or bowing down for, our senses are skewed in such sketchy proportions that we forget—there in fact, is
After 17 years of playing beer pong with coursework, classes and college, dyeing in Monday blues, indulging in food porn, waking up from caffeine comas, and surviving a day full of banter, sarcasm and capitalist hypocrisy, I learnt one thing.