Reels and Feels

I find it absolutely misleading, And pathetically diabolical On the part of people creating movies Who romanticize the rains to...

Sitting on a rusted bench That could hold only three people, But somehow miraculously fit Six people sitting on it in the Dingy waiting...

A self-proclaimed intellectual will Always negate what people around them Feel about the tiny pleasures of life, Like touching the wings...

I wiped my tears off as The smoke from the dying butt Of the half burnt cigarette Stung my eyes; I suppressed a cough - My third one,...

11/08/1996 In the few pages of books That I had the chance to read Whenever I went to Raddi Chacha's shop To sell the newspapers of our...

It was the second chapter In our second grade science book Or perhaps the third, Where it was mentioned about The creation of the earth,...

All this love, where do I put it down? It feels heavy, like an invisible burden That my soul has been carrying on its back, As if my...

Young, alluring, high-spirited, Persephone was the life, No, the apple of the eyes Of everyone who surrounded her; Everyone, except for...

1) Agape: The highest form of love; On the days when my mother Stayed back home from college, She would be the first one At the gate of...

My father met my mother When he was mighty and thirty, And she was shy and twenty, And like most Indian "marriages", It was decided that...

The elder one of the family was named "Komal", And like her name, she grew up to be soft, But of course, younger siblings always know...

Antebellum, Latin for "Before a war" But before you ask me about it, The war is with myself, within myself, A war that has been brewing...

On yet another night After five consecutive nights Of drowning in a sea of pegs Full of whiskey and vodka And Jager bombs at times, I...

11.4.21 Umm... How do I go about this? I agree this is a cliche setup, Writing letters to your future self, But how do you do it anyway?...

One sheep. Two sheep. Three sheep. Four sheep. Eighteen hundred and twenty three sheep. Wait, what? Where am I? Why do I see sheep all...

3:00 AM: I shouldn't have woken up At such an ungodly hour, But who am I to decide what's ungodly, When some people think I am God...

I had fallen asleep, eventually dreaming of all the fun We would have in the upcoming Obon festival, Thinking of all the crackers we...

Welcome to the mess in my head! To provide you with a seamless experience, I have multiple options that you can choose from To confirm...

You know when someone doesn't belong to a place, Speaking in a good way, that is - When she walked in through that door, I knew this...

i. Yellow was the color Of the smile on your face When your lover got you A bouquet of daffodils On their way back home Because they knew...