Journey Begins....unedited expressions of my life

Michel de Certeau would love my recent “Walk in the City” experience!!! For a change, I fell in love with this city all over again! The dirt, smell and busy road did not bother me (of course the fact remains that this was a day when nothing was moving!!!) but it just felt nice to tune my body and mind to the place I grew up! City girl I am and I am not ashamed to say this NOW but I always let myself get depressed because I could not get out from the hullabaloo of life to a much quieter space. But then the other day, things changed! I started looking at my city with a different lens. The intricate designs of the past, combined with the modern, abstract construction has created a strange picture of the town but not to acknowledge that change felt like sheer hypocrisy because I am also part of that Cultural Revolution, wanting the better of the modern technology, space and comfort. My dream remains of travelling to the unknown terrain (unknown to me atleast) and I will do so. I do y...

Age of Reasoning is driving me crazy. I always lived in the assumption that reasoning is the attribute of a sane personality. I am beginning to question that now. What is sane and what is reasoning? Sanity cannot possibly mean that for every action there has to be a sensible explanation or for every action, there has to be a reason no matter whether it is an intelligent reasoning or asinine assumptions. Having an opinion about issues is definitely an admirable quality but cynical and careless statements have become the fashion statement for people who likes to be seen and heard but without any substance. I say I am tired and people think I am over-worked, I say headache and people say either too much computer or caffeine, I say stomach pain and of course, it has to be menstruation, I yawn and there comes “didn’t you sleep well last night” statements, I say I am hungry and I get no need to diet lines and if I say, my clothes don’t fit, the automated comment is, “have you put on we...

After the first post, I got stuck. So many issues and ideas flooded my mind and I tried to pick an issue that has been of an interest to me personally. Interest may be too romantic a word at this stage. I should say an issue that got me thinking deeply. I wondered about the Mayan prophecy and was eager to know the outcome on December 21, 2012. It was mesmerizing to hear of different theories pertaining to the prophecy. People were really into it and honestly, I did wonder what would happen. I followed the mass to see how people would react. December 21, 2012 came and went. The world I live in did not collapse but a revolution started . What was talked within the confined boundaries became a global issue. The unimaginable rape of AMANAT on December 16, 2012 in New Delhi, India jolted the very Earth that we live in. The tremors were so personal that it rocked every beating heart and most of us were forced to re-think and re-visit our personal stance against gender based violence a...

End of the Age of Contemplation and Beginning of the New Journey ……after years of musing over how to express beyond the self-confined doors of diary and personal writing, here I am! The shyness dominates and I am quite aware that readers would see beyond the pseudonym because in my defence, I am not afraid of constructive criticism but rather a slap of demotivation. Life is amazing no doubt but we live in a culture dominated by Who’s Who and to even get a point across, you need influence. So if I were to use influence, how would I know the capacity of my writing: is it intellectually challenging, creatively motivating or merely a favour out of knowing somebody?? Now that I have expressed my initial thoughts, I am ready to explore the world of writing and free expressions. We spend our lives searching; I am not sure what though. Some call it love, some call it happiness, some call it fame and fortune, some call it beauty, some call it eternal peace! We all know the u...