THE SKY BURNS BLUE

To be able to look at your smile
And not feel the frozen fire coursing through my veins
Is impossible…
The unparalleled feeling of non-existence,
Like the world has stopped the second you enter a room
And everyone in the room has ceased to exist
It’s you in the spotlight of the sun and my soul that drinks
In your presence.
Every time I inch close to you
My inner demon smiles…
Thinking it has found a place to harbor.
I silence my demons as you never get close enough
To sense my darkness.


A simple touch of thought ignites the mind into flames. 
The thought ignites;
The touch will destroy everything in its path,
It takes no prisoners.
Slowly melancholy fills the space and leaves nothing
To trace.
From the rooftops they scream
“Irrationality”,
“Impossibility”,
“Hurt is what will remain”
It is not without this knowledge did I fall
Into your complexity.
So I stand there
Smiling at their ignorance…


All the music in the world
Fails to help me survive.
There is but one sound I want to hear.
It is the sound of your dreams,
Inching closer to mine.
They say it takes courage
To dedicate your conscience to a person.
 No, it is not an act of courage!
Showing your naked heart
To the person who has tempted your senses, well…
That takes courage!


Everything that has captured my attention stands mum.
The swirling winds will be your glances towards me
That escaped in the air and hit my being
Like the words hit the mind!
 I stand clearly at the edge of insanity!
I stand waiting at the edge to fall into your arms,
To escape into your dreams!


 Every second of longing that is impossible to string into words!
Every instance of proximity that is inhumanely irresistible!
 Every chance of clarity that I have chosen to ignore!
 Every moment of those macabre crooked smiles that I treasure will come back to kill me
When I am alone.  
Yet I choose to fall into this chasm.


The way you make me believe in myths
I condemned once
Is the way the wind sways and rocks the ship,
Slowly and unknowingly
Pulling the ship to its will.
 When the wind plays innocent, the ship just smiles.
When the moment arrives,
When I can no longer hold your thought
Where will this tenuous memory subside to?
 Will the object of relentless desire be bestowed upon?
As a thing of the past?
 Will I fade from your books?
 Questions are best answered by time.
 But I have got one that can be answered by you,
If I fall head first at your smile…......
Will you catch me in your dreams?
                                                                                                                              Indu

THE DRIVER SEAT OVER SHOTGUN !!

           Outrage across the nation, voices blaring from microphones! Voices, they are just voices! What good are the voices when the ears they fall on are deaf? Injustice, inhumanity these are the names given to deeds performed against women these days.  Names, what good are names when it is not tackled? The women of our country can only be called contrasting because even among women there are differences of opinion of how they should be treated. While there are feminist ladies down in the streets screaming for their so called freedom there are women inside their kitchens making rotis for their husbands, calling this entire riot futile. So it is known for a fact that the empowerment of women should begin with the creation of a unanimous idea of revolution. The revolution can only be meaningful only when goal is actually equality.

               Opening car doors for us, elegantly letting us by with a much used phrase “ladies first” may account for gallantry but what the women today are looking for is not gallantry but equality! The abundance women centric hate songs we find these days in the films are just downright disturbing. the women of today sometimes do pass this on as a joke maybe it should be handled as a joke maybe it needs attention the answer to this is in the minds of the writer who writes with the thought that blaming an entire gender would compromise for his loss. Women should be given equal stature in all their walks of life. Their choices respected their perspectives appreciated if correct, corrected if flawed. Women do not need a knight in a shining armor anymore they can fight their own battles. We see countless number of working silently running their family from the background and yet the male member will be crowned the main bread winner of the family, a dashing injustice that one.

          If the empowerment women should be rightly brought about it should start from the women themselves. They must understand and experience the true sense of freedom. Freedom in the sense taking a deserted road home without having a fear of getting molested, of being treated like scum, like someone weaker. When it stops being a true bliss to return home safely, when the superior (a lady mind that) can give out orders to her colleagues without being branded as a boss-lady, when the door opening and clearing of paths are done due to a sense of respect, when the wolf whistles, women hater anthems stop, when the extreme feminism, the race to superiority is put to a rest, when women drivers are not branded to be professional killers the women race will stand enlightened, empowered and undauntingly liberated !