life's a kick

He has completed 4 revolutions around the sun, but he can rattle off names of more than 40 cars in a go. Stuff I can’t even do after my 29! It’s another matter that Mercedes becomes ‘Mul-shi-deesh’ and Hummer ‘Hummal’. He is preceded by a sister 5 years older than him, who is beginning to enter the I-know-all age. When her mother, a lady you can’t take for a ride at any rate, tries to admonish her, the not-so-little one retorts with half fear, half pride, and an ada to put Kareena Kapoor to shame – she jerks her head, rolls her eyes, twists her mouth and swishes her hand as she says, ‘sapne mein’. It’s condescension to kill for. Imagine you are at work and your boss is ventilating about deadlines. Say that to him and he’ll be knocked out twenty spaces ahead! Devam Godara and Sahima Singh are my sister’s two offsprings. They would, however, love to believe my sister is theirs. With Sahima’s extra years of experience with mother earth and mother Rashmi Singh Godara, she’s ...

From the sinuous labyrinths of memory from the dark, tantalising track out comes a sting in the eye clutching my heart, when you come back i know you know it just as well the void you left - deep and black it floods with light, laughter and love i end up in pieces, when you come back i'm lying, it's a pretence, i so admit it's strategy to live, it's plain tact for how can someone who never went away a permanent resident, ever come back