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The River Flows Within Me

Chapter 1: The Ambrosial Hour “Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!” — William Butler Yeats The specific complex emotion that I encounter on seeing the Mighty Himalayas from the flight to Leh and back toContinue reading “The River Flows Within Me”

Darkness to Light

At some point of time, dark thoughts engulfed me… almost pushed me to the edge. I felt claustrophobic, dejected, anguished, betrayed, entrapped and lost amidst the cacophony of life. I floated in darkness trying desperately to find the ray of hope.There are darkness in life and there are light too. In the depths of miseryContinue reading “Darkness to Light”

Reverberation

“My library is an archive of longings.” Susan Sontag The self infiltrates into the cultural landscape. And this self has the fragile body, indicating a space: of futility, transience and transcendence. The inner perceptions and emotional entanglements get inscribed into the metaphysics of this landscape. The process becomes an intensely personal yet acutely revealing bodyContinue reading “Reverberation”

Cocooned

The world came to a standstill in March 2020 because of the pandemic. The soul has been battered through different periods of this time. These unusual times have exposed the sore wounds of my inner self to the surface. The wavelength of the exposure has been different and interesting to me! I had started toContinue reading “Cocooned”

Sound of Silence

I came across this beautiful thought by the renowned poet and author Amrita Pritam: “There are many stories which are not on paper, they are written in the minds and bodies of women”. I have been thinking about this. It is necessary to push through the fog and pain of trauma; to create a narrativeContinue reading “Sound of Silence”