“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” -Berthold Brecht I recently came across a post that read how art is an escape- how people confide in any form of art only when they lose hope, they can’t find light, or hit a point in theirContinueContinue reading “What did I have to lose?”
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Loneliness is a butterfly
“You are somebody’s something, but you are also your you.” John Green- ‘Turles All the Way Down’. Have you ever thought about how most of the time you are alone, you are, in fact, lonely? Well yes. I do too. I think about loneliness all the time. Sometimes so much, it consumes me. But IContinueContinue reading “Loneliness is a butterfly”
Grey Love
“You’ve always been a tourist here, you just didn’t know it.” Khaled Hosseini, from The Kite Runner. We Indians love one thing unitedly, after our country, which is chai. Milk tea. Or black tea but tea in general. And if you know the process of making milk tea it requires boiling the milk with theContinueContinue reading “Grey Love”
Hot and Cold
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost But have you ever wanted it to stop? Have you ever looked out the window, felt a deep sting in your chest, and pled time stopped? Because haven’t we all? In life, we hope some stay andContinueContinue reading “Hot and Cold”
On the road
I spread my arms wide open into the air, it is a windy, murky weather. At the speed the motorbike is moving, if I lifted myself a little more maybe the wind could add wings on my arms and I’d fly above the city. I look up and watch the sky, the only thing IContinueContinue reading “On the road”
Course of Growth 