What is life

Sans the realm

Of possibilities and aspirations

The tea is waiting

To be sipped as well

I had a deep guilt regarding writing and my intellectual interests in policy and history as I am trained in engineering, which I work as a consultant. I see no dichotomy in both the areas as both are my cognitive feet, giving me balance, and configuring the person I am. As in Latour’s Actor Network Theory, the living and the non living are connected with the same potency. I grew up where my humanities educator parents were hugely suspicious of my interests as they wanted me to secure my financial future. I am fortunate to have trained in engineering and ethnography and both devices sync seamlessly in a networked narrative. I write from life, and is infected with a bias for systematic view with the eye for emotion. In my next life, hopefully I can study writing as well! I write therefore I exist.

An unfinished life

Rough edges

Silences loud enough

Better quiet

Let’s move on

Life is lived in moments

When do we consider

An experience, complete?

Moments, take off

Take flight

Burn into oblivion

The experience is life

As it should, be

#spokenword

Arnab was classy on the flight, his Cambridge Anthropology Education showed unlike Kamra. We have been on the same flight a few years back, and he has an extremely calm demeanour in public, very understated.

PS: Endangering Public Safety in mid air is no coherent counter to his politics of R TV. He has an audience who watch his political theatre. I don’t, however he has a right to be on air as NDTV.

The Bazaar. Who said offline retail Kirana is dead.

The Republic is articulated in the enthusiasm that this young boy has for the rashtra dhwaj or the national flag, while he is pestering his father to buy one. The republic is the register of the aspirations of its citizens. #RepublicDayIndia 

Unlike other literary devices, poetry comes from an unknown place, a certain crack in the soul. It is bled, rather than written.

I feel at home

Everywhere, the warmth is present

More importantly

The cash in the bank

Is the warmest embrace

I can get

#spokenword

The anti NRC/CAA protests have turned in to some thing of pop culture, a mature college festival. Let all the anti Modi forces unite, is the rallying call. Shaheen Bagh being exalted, as Tahrir or Shahbag- we’re never Modi voters. Doesn’t matter to the anti Lutyens/India International Centre seminar circuit culture of the BJP. It worries more about Darbhanga than Dilshad Garden.

In chasing the future

We often miss the heartbeat

Where was I, I often wonder

A voice inside quipped

‘While your life was buffering’

Smell the decay

Of Dreams

Life is not

The bio we write

On our LinkedIn

#spokenword