Stepping through the corridor, entering through the main door, she puts her bag to the side and crashes herself onto the sofa. The tie of her hair comes loose, her feet go up on the table, and the remote gets picked off the cushion, channels switching mindlessly, one after another, going nowhere in particular. Nearly …
Even in the middle of the bazaar, even in the scorching heat of a day when the sun has charged all of its batteries and planned to exhaust them in a single afternoon, standing in the middle of it all, you feel that even though you are a human being, you can truly sense, in …
2 a.m., and the place is quiet enough for the drop of a pin. The blackest black, the kind no color chart has ever honestly named. A strange place, known to be home for many. A place that changes the human body quite literally from the inside out. The effect, it seems, is felt by …
The height of a thousand stacked giraffes; billions of boxes piled precariously on top of one another; hundreds of towering electricity poles; gazillions of atoms fused together in infinite lines. The height of the Burj Khalifa must surely eclipse all these things combined. It stands as an astonishingly colossal monument, offering a breathtaking, dizzying view …
When she plays hopscotch outside the house, she likes all her five-year-old friends to be with her. She also wants her grandmother to sit across the road. Just sit, doing nothing. Nothing but watching her. Nothing but sitting and looking at her from time to time. That is what she wants. This is one of …
There is a small mirror in each person’s pocket. You can always gaze into it in case you ever forget who you are, who you are supposed to be, or how you are meant to talk and walk. It will dictate who to become. Thus, at every second, you can act precisely according to its …
A jar full of candies. Wishes half-boiled on medium heat. Hearts exchanged at parallel positions during midnight. A lottery won on a fluke. Answers to the lost questions in the desert. Winds blowing in the desired direction. Seasons arranging in the coveted order. Miseries falling like dominoes. Views shifting as per the desires. Life happening …
Not all five fingers are of the same length, and even though I had never believed in palm reading, when I read some scientific evidence, my belief was affirmed that it is not in the lines of the hands at all. What really is on the hand is the dirt. For some people, money really …
Let’s just say you’re not supposed to settle down at any point in your life. But who decided that in the first place? Who declared it the right way? Who thought it could have been right? Hell, who decided what is right and what is wrong? Who distinguished between them? Who was the first person …
Two paths. Two. To choose from. One could lead to somewhere where the other can never go. Two ways. Two ways it can turn around. And a thousand times others will ask you: which way do you choose? What is your path? A million times you will encounter this question and zero is the number …