Poetry
3 min read
The Night-Watch at the Sluice Gate
A midnight vigil beside a diesel tubewell in the Punjab winter, measuring the human cost of irrigation against the mystic verses of Baba Farid.
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Poetry
1 min read
Echoes on the Verandah After Dusk
A lyrical meditation on stillness, rain on stone, and words left unsaid.
Poetry
1 min read
Echoes on the Verandah After Dusk
Verses on quiet hours, memory, and the unhurried texture of evening shadows.
Poetry
1 min read
The Salt Breeze of Panambur: Verses on the Monsoon Trawlers
On the wooden hulls resting on the black sand of Mangalore, where dried mackerel and coconut husks smell of generational departures.
Poetry
1 min read
The Last Tram from Nonapukur: Verses on Howrah Rain
Lyrical verses on amber streetlights reflecting in tram tracks, old College Street books smelling of dried rain, and the steady rhythm of Howrah station at dusk.
Poetry
1 min read
The Ridge at Landour: Pine Resin and First Frost
Free verse observing the sudden descent of autumn mist over the deodar ridges of Landour, where the silence of high altitude outlasts human hurry.
Poetry
1 min read
The Wool Blankets of Chitkul: Before the Snow Closes the Pass
High-altitude mountain verses on the smell of raw sheep wool, firewood stacked against stone walls, and the quiet dignity of preparing for Himalayan winter.
Poetry
1 min read
The Silt That Remembers: Verses on the Swollen Mandakini
Free verse on the red monsoon water rising through mountain ravines, where the river reclaims ancient pathways carved long before human masonry.
Poetry
2 min read
The Salt of Beypore: Wood, Tides, and Uru Shipwrights
Lyrical free verse observing the elder Khalasis of Beypore shaping ocean-going teak dhows by eye, salt spray, and the memory of tides.
Poetry
1 min read
The Geometry of Evening Rain
Verses on quiet hours, memory, and the unhurried texture of evening shadows.
Poetry
1 min read
Echoes on the Verandah After Dusk
A lyrical meditation on stillness, rain on stone, and words left unsaid.
Poetry
2 min read
The Rain on the Tin Roof of Fort Kochi
A quiet sensory chronicle of monsoon afternoons, rusted anchors, and the rhythm of coastal solitude.
Poetry
1 min read
Between The Breath and The Silence: Verses on Solitude
A poetic meditation on silence, evening shadows, and finding stillness in a loud world.
Poetry
2 min read
The Salt in the Eaves
A lyrical meditation on coastal monsoon, peeling lime walls, and the quiet resilience held in everyday objects.
Poetry
2 min read
Chirāgh-e-Khamooshi (The Lamp of Silence)
A classical Urdu ghazal exploring silence, nostalgia, and distance, paired with English translations and poetic commentary.
Poetry
1 min read
Cartography of an Old Balcony
A lyrical meditation on monsoon twilight, rusted iron railings, and the quiet residue of memories left behind in a fast-changing city.
Poetry
3 min read
Cantos for the Midnight Terminal: A Suite in Four Movements
Lyrical reflections on luminous phosphor, silent nocturnes, and the poetry woven into every closing parenthesis.
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