May 2012 ~ Musings and Lyrics

Lac-dye vows

She is too shy for comfort. At times, I can’t even find a way to start a conversation. At the most, she would nod, maybe a smile in her boldest days. Leaning against the door, gripping hard at the ends of her attire, she would twist the threads in nervousness. I can notice sweat trickle down her forehead, as she talks.

Morning walk

And I wonder:/ These heads popping out, their throbbing figures,/ Are they figment of my imagination?/ Do they gather just to make me realize/ I am no anomaly, a part of them, Possibly estranged.

Keats' a mirror, Keats' a mirage

Keats the person we know has been pictured through word-of-mouth...it remains amusing to me how an article read on Keats is almost always an article forgotten.

Sourav Ganguly is a threat to cricket writing

Ganguly in inertia for a moment and then his fall, one arm below his body, his cry of agony — provided a poetic moment for the lensmen and T.V audiences, but for us the writers, if we had written, we would have had to do with cliches like ‘aged warrior’ and ‘falling hero’.

The day I came to life

In the hour of midnight, when the Sun was busy preening itself in front of the mirror, and the Moon was preoccupied, flirting with the stars. I finally attained independence (at least that is what I thought) after 9 months in confinement, without any fault of mine.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Sourav Ganguly is a threat to cricket writing

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Some weeks back, Ganguly — the 40-year old, running backward, his sight on the ball which is up in the air; Ganguly in inertia for a moment and then his fall, one arm below his body, his cry of agony — provided a poetic moment for the lensmen and T.V audiences. But for us the writers, if we had written, we would have had to do with cliches like ‘aged warrior’ and ‘falling hero’. The better among us could/must have played around with symbolisms: ‘the monument crumbles’, ‘a hero in denial’. But could we have produced in words a cinematic equivalent?

Find out more in my article for SportsKeeda