this and that

​A yellow moon in a green sky!
Does the breeze moan, stars sulk and cry?
Is that what happens on the longest night?
they call winter solstice.

the winds dont whisper or
tell stories any more
they hiss

Soulless is this withering garb
Why have you abandoned me, O Muse
in this valley of
where I search for words
and only write silence

Born to clouds and thunder 
I am darkness that births light
A storm collecting raindrops

Don’t take life seriously. We and everyone around us is going to die anyway.
Take the revenge and settle that score here and soon. There is no other life time.

Clock Towers of Delhi

A clock replaced the good old bell. Effectively, two hands of a clock replaced a tongue or the clapper of the bell. The clock could do by itself all that the bell couldn’t. To begin with the clock couldn’t be heard afar like the bell, so they built a bell inside the clock. ​The word clock actually comes from the French for Bell.​Yes, an alarm was added to the clock which would do exactly what the bell did. The Bell Towers of yore were replaced by Clock Towers with easy availability of large size clocks in the 15th century. 

Ram Roop Tower, aka Sabzi Mandi Ghanta Ghar in north Delhi’s Kamla Nagar area.

Evil eye – नज़र

अच्छा सीरियसली, ये बताइये अगर किसी को नज़र लगानी हो या लगवानी हो (यक़ीनन बुरी ही) तो कैसे होता है, क्या करना होता है, किस के पास जाएँ और क्या करना होता है, कौन है सबसे तोप इस मामले में? मल्लब ऐसे कि आँख धरी औ भसम। सिफारिशें जल्दी मिले जाएँ तो बेहतर रहेगा… सर्दी रहते, सुना है असर तेज़ होता है इस मौसम में, हाँ . इसके उतारने वाले / वलियाँ तो सुने हैं पर… <wayward thoughts on seeing an amulet>

An amulet titled Nazar (in the shape on an eye)

They killed Gandhi

They killed Mahatma Gandhi for they hated him and his idea of equality, brotherhood and diversity. The hate that killed him and hundreds of thousand others won’t stop at the doorstep of the other… one day it will come knocking at your door too. Stop them from destroying the diversity of India. Speak up and stand against the politics of hate. #HatePoliticsNotInMyNameThe graphic is a part of the Poster designed by Rajinder Arora for a play directed by Mk Raina . Background photo ©H.Cartier Bresson/Magnum Photos

Poster of a play performed in Delhi