छुक-छुक गाड़ी की खिड़की के उस तरफ़ तेज़ी से पीछे भागते दरख़त जैसे आदम जात से डर के छुप रहे हैं

<GT Road> On highway, running parallel to train track, a yellow car has a piece of white cloth fluttering like a torn flag. Possibly the sign that the next city has made peace with me.

<Ambala> On rail stations of towns from past, memories are hanging in ceiling corners swinging in cobwebs.

<Chandigarh> Layers peeling off, memories like old wound, surface again

<Morni Hills> Just two ridges of Shivalik, and behind them are the lower Himalayan mountains. Can almost smell them. Goosebumps.

( 12 February 2016, train journey from Delhi to Solan and Barog)