I do not know when I will learn to look again at the sky without imagining people falling. I am terrified of reading now. I am terrified that while I read the subjects of my books are rising from their shadows in my mind and coming alive. …

She asks me if the book is an account of a ‘real’ person. I tell her that it is, or might be, at least partially. Or that it could be. And how writers never bring anything out of the blue; he has to have either lived it in his time…

All beginnings are from ends. Some are a tad mightier than the rest. Relative insignificance is a great determinant in the larger scheme of things. Or something like that is what Mr Mongoose realised as he rolled over on his back and bled to death on the unceremonious mud road…

It is fascinating how people die — with their long to-do lists intact on the refrigerator doors. …

She is clad in crimson, the sunlight elevates her by many realms. Her eyes glisten in some sparse memory, and I can see her stories meandering like tributaries that collect as the strings of flowers on her hair. …

“At the center of everything beautiful, there is cruelty.” - Albert Camus Camus’s words ring true to very many contexts across time and space, or the lacking of the two. It holds to the concepts of relationships, characters, plots, and artistic reality which, if one may extend it, encompasses much…

Freedom is a virtue. Or a vice. Depending on whose freedom we are discussing. It is a short, heated conversation that brought the thought of it back to my mind. And the succeeding guilt of how much one takes for granted. I am, limited though my experience is, yet to…

This is a start in the middle of a nowhere. This is not the first book I have read but in its own way, it makes for a good beginning. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, to me, is an introduction. It is a much-needed conversation that we have been systematically…

I recently happened to read Margret Atwood’s retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It is titled Hag-Seed and brings a theatre story to a very theatrical narrative. I found it to be a read that delights as it engages its audiences in both experience and dialogue to an extent that I…