Black Crow

Black crow
Portentous
Menacing
Proximal
How you did freak me out 
In my vulnerability.

Bombay - 18th Jan 2015 at the play area in COJ

Eleven Pipers Piping

11th night o the pagan revelry, 

You silent witness. 

Keeper of secret prayers 

Strung across your chest 

As your dreadlocks glow 

In the soft winters eve. 

The moon - she is full tomorrow, 

And promises me untold delights. 

Christmas Eve Insight

So driving along in Ludhiana, we stopped at a signal. A beggar came up to the window, and at first I said No and waved him off. Then reconsidered briefly, and called him back and gave him some money.

Armaan was in the car with me, and questioned me as to why I did such a thing.
I tried to explain myself saying that : "What the heck its Christmas eve, so let me be kind hearted."
He laughed at that and remarked saying : "So rest of the year you can be cruel [hard hearted ] but on one day of the year you are kind ?!"

Made me think.
A lot.

Let Sleeping Cats Lie

Pic : By Armaan on the way back from Driving Class in Mulund East.

I can hear a squirrel chirping really loudly.  He climbs the side of my building, and at one of the corners he has discovered that his voice gets amplified as it bounces of the sheer walls.

I think he has forgotten why he was chirping in the first place,  and has begun enjoying the sound of his own voice as it reverberates through the tall and gaunt columns of the adjacent high-rise buildings under construction. It almost seems like he has begun to think himself bigger than he really is.