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Dareechey

"I have always imagined love as the remnant of two shadows that coexisted on a wall for a brief moment - only to flutter away." Imagine this if you will - you receive a diary courtesy of the most popular insurance company in the country. The pages are the shade of that butterscotch ice-cream that you have always been very ambivalent about and are too thin. You hate it when the deep blue of your favorite ink seeps into the following page abruptly ending your perfect tapestry of thought, plot, and imagination. Maybe, you were telling a tale that has been told before but it felt new to you. Memory occupies a part of this story as it does in your life. Things are forgotten - a stray piece of wood in the courtyard of your home, a small sapling that bloomed unceremoniously at the base of the eastern wall of your residence. Yet in your heart, you know that you cannot forget things and certain details appear with much fanfare and vividness on tepid summer nights - a full moon night w...
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Raat Pashmine Ki

 The title has been borrowed from Gulzar, who lent this name to a collection of his poetry.  Before we begin with the work proper, I will take this moment to thank those who took their time to read the debut of this blog and were also kind enough to provide their feedback on the same. I have also discovered that Blogger has Helvetica and henceforth, I shall use the same. 1. You had asked for a letter on a lonesome summer night - those nights when the lull of the world seeps into the very sinew and the heart grows fonder. A chorus perched atop the neighbor's roof has positioned itself perfectly to add to the proceedings. Ensue jugalbandi. The chorus says "Yes" and they nod, they raise their instruments - a motley mix of the East and the West. An argument arises if they should proceed with the guitar or begin with a rendition of the khamaj. It doesn't matter. I say, "Yes. It should be there, soon." Hesitant of the power that my words possess, they are limp, an...
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There is always another summit to climb : A personal ramble about Les Sommet des Dieux

 Hello there (as Obi-Wan would dramatically enact). There are a few questions to address before we embark on another blog, another one of those projects that I will find myself visiting irregularly. 1. What about Pencil in a Loop, Bishnu? Great question. For context, Pencil in a Loop was a blog and more importantly, a journey that I embarked upon sometime during 2021(?) and it was a collection of my ruminations and ramblings about albums that I liked, musicians I hold in reverence, and in essence share my tiny corner of the world to...well, the world. More of a passion project, less of a journal - I deleted the blog along with its contents sometime around 2023. Yes, I was reprimanded for it but one of the writings in that blog was actually published in the Articulate webzine - so that's a small win, I suppose? 2. What is this blog about then? Let me be honest - I have no idea. It is supposed to be my alternative to journaling. My mentor, whose name I will withhold, asked me about h...
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