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Wildflowers are Deviants (Part I – Happiness)
What does it take to be a wildflower? Clarity and courage, maybe? It must be that, for what else will make them bloom so bright and unbridled? Maybe they know where to grow, how much to take from the earth and give back, to live happily? Maybe they aren’t looking to belong? We live to…
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Reflections
In those hands, like the wings of a heron in a prayer As they waved through air, And feet that trudge and glide As time did slide, In the flight of an artist in making, Or disappearing, Hunched by heavy hauls of what seemed like farfetched and frozen dreams I heard the hums of a…
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Summer Roads
The first half of summer in this part of India, the northeast, is usually accompanied by clear blue skies. Last year May was no different. On most of our outings we encountered dazzling blue skies. Vibrant. Resolute. It was not the blue of an overcast sky, despite the exhibit of clouds; it was not my…
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Savouring Sewali
Nature is strange; humans stranger The sweetness of the Sewali slips into a savage flavour on flames, yet humans have found a way to pacify it, add some pungency to the bitter and make it bittersweet. A south Indian family, I had a chance to know and have dinner with in their ancestral home, were…
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Light & Shadows
While moving about, engrossed in your daily business, do you perhaps halt for a moment, at the sight of a shadow that momentarily catches you by surprise? If you pass by it do you feel like returning and having your eyeful? I do. Awe-struck at how beautiful something which is the opposite of light, yet…
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