As I lie awake at 4:02 a.m., 6th night in a row, I try to psychoanalyze the situation and ask myself, what is it that is keeping me up when everything around me is resting; why when I look into the small opening of a cupboard not fully closed, do I feel a creep rise up my neck; why do I…

I tried indifference, I tested hatred, I mastered incivility and I connoisseur-ed impatience.

But today my heart skipped a beat. It wasn’t the heralding of a smitten heart, nor was it the wonderment of an excited one. It didn’t chaperone a fluttering gut nor did it leave a…

When being alone is not an option but you still feel lonely, that’s the weakness which tarnishes the entirety of a mind’s happy place. Having dealt with peer insecurities in my childhood, I had conditioned my own society to be enough for myself. Where it kept me sane emotionally, considering…

First Time Bird

It was a bright morning in Jodhpur. As per the weather forecast, the temperature went up to 40 degrees. When I stepped out of the Air India flight at 2:15 pm, the weather accurately complimented my mood, downtrodden and gloomy. The bit of humidity that laced the air made the confusion apparent on my face. The…