Author: Shakti

Don’t gimme red!

Ok so it’s the time of the year where TV, radio, newspapers and magazines start harping about love. All the shops are coloured pink and red with merchandise and all the couples around you start planning dinners, gifts and what…

Taare Zameen Par

Everyone’s going on and on about the brilliant film that’s TZP, and finally I saw it. Not once, twice. The first time I was consumed by the story and performance. The second time, the story continued to amuse me, but…

The Shadow

These days the shadow that thrives on my happiness has gotten darker. It has gotten darker to the extent of being indestructible by the feeble lights I flash on it. The shadow only gets darker each day. The shadow eats…

…Starfish

While walking down a clean beach early one morning, I came across an almost dead starfish. It was stuck in the sand, stagnated. There was an urge to pick the fish up and take him home, and match it with…

Writer’s dream

I want to write Breaking free from the chains That bind me down To me I want to float away Far from the reach Of these constellations Into a land of my mind I want to break open, This cage…

Writing

In my cave Deep beneath the ground I wait for inspiration to strike Amongst the muffled sounds… Sounds of thumping feet, Sounds of muffled speech, Sounds of dying music And of the music that has died Life reaches me Seeping…

Plain Jane

I don’t have the long pretty hair, For you to lose yourself in. And my cheeks aren’t that fair, That your touch would make them pink. I don’t have those deep blue eyes, In which you might want to drown.…