I remembered the girl in the timeless Malayalam movie say, ‘Ee veettil ulla aarum, onnum ente alla’ – ‘nothing, no one in this home belongs to me’. Why was she in that situation? Who put her there? Can whoever put her in that home, where nothing, no one belonged to her, claim to love her and have her best intentions at heart?
Tag: Life
Daughter of the planet
Earth won.
Like it won every single soul it held thus far
Like every parent beaming with joy for a newborn
Like every plant winning its first bloom.
Six cups
The child, searching for any scrap of uniqueness, for definitions in her confused search for identity in the world she had landed in — and who, as I’ve mentioned before, did not have much else going on — clutched the number seven proudly to her heart, as if losing it meant losing a vital fraction of the little that set her ever so slightly apart from ordinary.
Hands in my pockets
I stay still and watch,
Stoically? Not only.
Helplessly.
Baby Coconut
But really, baby coconuts powerfully rule over the hearts of Malayali children who grow up in rural Kerala.
20th August 1950
Rumours say that the boy finds one’s problematic tooth in seconds and clasps onto it and persists until the tooth gives up its roots and migrates with his fingers.
Flavours
I waited for grandma to arrive and give me the only and ultimate validation I sought.
To smile unto silence
Unto a space void of other life A smile unacknowledged, unreturned, Unknown to anyone else, unasked for. Yet one that I understand the most. For the chance to smile such a smile, I thank my all encompassing solitude.
Linie 6 : Nordhafen
Today I came face to face with the pure goodness that lives inside me, and it brought me to my knees, shaking and unable to bear its revelation without breaking into uncontrollable sobs.
Curtain Call after the Decade – Part I
‘At the beginning of the decade, a simple dream took its early form in me. Through the ten years, it has staunchly stood by me, becoming the single most important influencer of every decision I have taken. Thus, it rightfully takes the left most position on stage during this Curtain Call.’
Alleys 
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