I remember the summer when I was nine. We were living in New Delhi then and had come back to our place in Kolkata for the vacations. The house held…
“धुळीबद्दल काहीच कसं रे नाई लिहिलं कुणी? बाकी सगळ्याबद्दल लिहीत बसलेत लोक. झाडं, फुलं, पक्षी, दगडं, दऱ्या, डोंगर.. ते जाऊ दे सगळं. कवींचं लाडकं आहे ते सगळं. आजारी पडल्याबद्दल पण…
To all the architectures of unfulfilled promises, to all the architectures where I don’t belong anymore—the thought of writing to you has always conflicted me. This I say because in…
सकाळचा स्वयंपाक आटपून ती उरलेल्या कामांना लागली. “लई खराब झालीय भिंत, साफ करून टाकतेच उद्याला..” स्वतःशी पुटपुटत तिनं हातात झाडू घेतला. अख्खं घर तिने सावकाश प्रेमाने झाडून पुसून लख्ख केलं.…
Episode 1:
Conversation between two Ghosts who live in cracks and roam old/ancient buildings. One speaks, while the other listens. They know they are extinct, not what they must…
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आडरानात झुळझुळणाऱ्या पाण्याशेजारी तंबू ठोकलेला. पोर्णिमेची रात्र निवडूनच ट्रेक ठरवलेला. शुभ्र, दुधाळ चांदण्यांनी भारलेला परिसर.. गर्द झाडांच्या मंद्र सावल्यांमध्ये पसरलेली एकांत शांतता. आम्ही तिघंच. अर्ह झोपतच नव्हता. सारखा म्हणत…
I feared going to Hell as a child—I knew exactly what it looked like. Against an indigo sky stood a well of fire into which you were thrown while the…
It was during the war of 1945 when the incident occurred.
The man was a soldier who survived a plane crash. He lay unconscious near a large water body. As…
It had never occurred to Sonali that sadness could have a smell, not until she sat there in that waiting room. It wasn’t that she had never been sad; on…
Every year, Dada would start constructing a fort a day before Vasu Baras, the first day of Diwali. The wall of the landlord’s house extended a little outside and formed…
रात्री असं वाटत होतं की हजारो-लाखों कोनांमधनं येणारे प्रकाशाचे झोत अंगात भरत जातील आणि आपण निर्अंग होऊन जाऊ. लहानपणी भिंगातनं सूर्यप्रकाश एका बिंदूत साठवून कापूस जाळायचो आपण तसं. या झोतांनी…
When I was a child there was an old wood-framed rectangular mirror in my home that had found its way here from the native place. It was small and light…