flowers on wheels

wet road
freshly watered
flowers

click

from her bowl of

memories,

she will fish

them out 

one by one, 

until the breeze
tells her - its time
to surge with the
oceans again...

game (version 2)

siblings spar

over forgotten

chores

the sunday fish

already,

she can smell

the smear of spices 

over the softness

of flesh

At Bhimashankar (undated)


After a false alarm, that one of our friends could see a leopard's spotted skin through his binoculars, that turned out to be a languor on much closer inspection, standing on all fours over a cliff, probably doing a leopard imitation for its chums, we made steady progress through the morning.

Overcast, without the prospect of rain, Wander was the most nimble of the four, making it steadily through this breathtaking route.Below, to the right, a whole forest teemed with jungle sounds, its limited blessed radius not yet intruded by humans...


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A Random March

Cooking, Early Days: A roasted papad meets a gory end

A historic moment: The third whistle of  the pressure cooker signalling cooked rice

The first meal prepared ever by the very hands that type these words down

On the day of Holi, the festival of colours, a tree joins in

bus stop

winter evening
pensive thoughts
fragmented reflections

lights

a city sky

sans stars

christmas

homebound

late afternoon

the earth-diggers

hum a soft song



game

kicking shadows

enervated footwear 

rubble dust

downpour

suddenly,
from cloud valley,
a spray of arrows

Flowers



bound for a thousand

apologies, for myriad

blooming desires



walk

in familiar directions,
go several, hurried
feet 

kites overhead!

over the meat market

whirl-pooling

scavengers 

daydreamer

brick after brick

on his sand castle

vanishes, appears   

watchman, watchdog

 

For wading through the umpteen hours of boredom and inertness, the dog is a constant companion for the watchman through his lonely shifts, even as students pass by, filling in him, years of invisibility...  



The Window Cleaner

The window project: Where is the school bus?

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