Mind Frame

2015 was a let down of a year. 1. Passenger planes across the world crashed, were shot down or simply vanished. 2. Ebola died a slow death but took with it a many lives. Black lives. 3. Terror changed a new face in the form of ISIS & Boko Haram and their violent videos. 4. Nepal shook with the quake & shook the world. 5. Greece stumbled & tripped. Germany pointed an laughed. 6. Nigeria, Australia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Mali, India & now France faced terror attacks. 7. Obama talked the walk on Syria, Putin walked all over Syria. 8. LVG & Jose walked all over themselves. 9. The refugee crisis stung Europe & its larger parts. The biggest since WW-Two. 10. iPhone 6 made money. 11. After AIDS & racism, US battled 'Donald Trump' as its biggest cranial infection. 12. Indians let Prem Ratan Dhan Payo make 100 Cr & a handful few watched Masaan. 13. We lost Christopher Lee, Omar Sharif, APJ Abdul Kalam, James Horner & Leonard Nimoy. 14. Ch...

Its weirdly wonderful. All my life I have grown up speaking the language at home. Not having heard it outside the 4 walls of my home or amidst a people I can count on my hands. So when we landed and we conversed with nearly each and every one around us in Kashur it was a feeling of familiarity and warmth. We were on a trip but at home. “I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”  - Anon

I think I am going to write a book. Soon.

A scatter of yellow mingled with the tinges of white as light sneaked in through the whiskey glass that rested in the palms of his hand flattening the creases that held his future. A few shades escaped in the trickle that slid as the glass tilted towards his parched lips. His lips curved to a smile as he looked at his future ahead. All of three, she smiled back as well.

Tight hugs work better than bandaids.

चाशनी मोहब्बतों के लफ़्ज़ , मिले जो तेरी ज़ुबान से, फ़िज़ा में गिरे रंग गुलाल से, रोशन मेरी निगह कर गए । (When the sugary words of love met your lips, the wind red in hue brightened up my sight)   

कल तक आपने देखा, अब आगे ।   Guess life is all about moving on or else one would miss the views ahead.