Category Archives: musings

The local market had a bookseller, and I needed to buy a book or two What I saw was a stack of books arranged on a cart, publications old and new A bit difficult to browse through, for someone used to large bookstores I must admit I had never bought books at such a placeContinue reading “Buying Books on the Street in India”

The world right now is with uncertainty fraught In these volatile times, I need a grounding thought To calm my anxious mind, as if on cue A gorgeous sunrise comes into my view I am reminded that in an uncertain world I can rely On the sun rising and setting every day in the skyContinue reading “Watching a sunrise”

Increasingly when I create a travel itinerary I’ve come to view it as a guideline and not necessarily A plan to be executed barring an extenuating circumstance These days it almost seems a matter of chance Whether my trip proceeds according to my plan detailed- Weather, conflict, war can work individually or in collusion toContinue reading “Travel Plans”

When good penmanship was considered a desirable skill I learnt to write in cursive, I would fill My notebooks with letters looping together and slanting to the right My pen flowing on the paper in strokes fluid and light But when it was time for my son to learn writing I realized That cursive writingContinue reading “Cursive Writing”

After spending a few decades on this planet, most of us should realize That if something seems too good to be true, one should not be surprised When it does not turn out to be as good as it initially appeared Despite this being proven true repeatedly, I find it weird That people still fallContinue reading “It was too good to be true..”

My mind like my internet browser appears to be Open on too many tabs simultaneously Running in multiple directions without completing a single thought It is not a surprise that I feel overwhelmed a lot On my device, one by one each tab I close But in my mind, one tab into another flows AsContinue reading “State of my Mind”

It hurts me to admit this bitter truth that I try to suppress When I return to my motherland, I no longer experience pure happiness A peculiar sense of disorientation I feel on my return Everything has changed, and I need to learn A new set of norms, adjust my expectations To the reality, notContinue reading “On Returning”

I am not trying to be a contrarian, I want to say I am not trying to hurt anyone’s feelings in any way I am just being myself, trying to explain The way I think, but I end up feeling discouraged again I have been misunderstood by those around me I don’t know what toContinue reading “Misunderstood”

Sometimes when impatience threatens to overwhelm me I challenge myself to write, to compose poetry At first I am too preoccupied to concentrate But as I try harder, ideas begin to germinate In my brain, leading to a perceptible shift In my emotions, my mind begins to drift From feeling rushed to moving at aContinue reading “Write a poem”

There was snow in my yard for three whole days There were solid sheets of ice on roadways A polar vortex on the warm southern states descended And our mild winter seemed to be northward extended.. * There was a hurricane that caused unprecedented destruction Not built to withstand heavy winds was our construction TreesContinue reading “Unpredictable Weather”

I go through life composing sentences in my mind Sometimes they run into paragraphs, at others times I find They stay unfinished, hanging in mid-air Like unrealized dreams, stuck in despair Sometimes they morph into questions profound The answers to which I have not found Sometimes they appear out of nowhere with such clarity ThatContinue reading “Writer’s Soul”

For years the story I told myself and everyone else was the same I was left-brained, did not have a creative side, I would blame My lack of creative effort on the way I was wired To craft an intellectually challenging career was the main thing I desired Any creative endeavor that I dabbled inContinue reading “Left-brained?”