Category: Writing

A story about my longing for my grandmother, how I search for her even though she’s been gone for over a decade, and how I finally find some solace in knowing that she’s perhaps still with me. It’s a matter of how and where she manifests and whether I pay attention to what’s around me… Continue reading Where Are You?

A ten-year old boy, living in rural India, growing up in a poor family, has a strong desire to attend school and change his life. He wants to stop selling plastic bags by the side of the road, and instead, build a career upon his passions. However, dreams can be fluffy and clouds often get… Continue reading Airplanes and Tin Roofs

What happens when the Mind, Body, Soul and the Spirit of the Desert all meet up for a long-overdue reunion and camp together in the Mojave Desert? How do they interact with each other? In what ways do the Mind, Body and Soul replenish themselves? The Spirit of the Desert is there to heal, unite… Continue reading Reunion in The Desert

She’s going through a hard time in her relationship. Work’s not fun either. A text from her husband annoys her, as she’s driving home. Unable to focus on driving, she gets angry and starts driving like a maniac, before getting into an accident. What should she do now? Get away from it, asap. She can’t… Continue reading Duty to cooperate

Autumn is a season of, amongst other things, change. The most common way we observe that change is in deciduous trees that slowly start to let go of their leaves over the course of the season. Is there anything we can learn from timeless ritual of cultivating and nourishing something, to getting to a point… Continue reading Let go

Wrinkles. When we hear that word, what’s the typical first reaction? Is it recoiling and clenching our hands out of fear that we’re getting old? Is it a sad oh-well-that’s-life kinda smile? Is it possible to radically change that reaction and instead replace it with gratitude, nostalgia and acceptance of the fact that everything changes?… Continue reading Wrinkled Journal

A canyon wren whistling in the high desert, looking for insects. Seems normal, right? But, a few months ago, it was a human being. In the transition, there was a 5-lb urn of ashes that belonged to the human, set aside at the bottom of a cliff. This is a story about looking at the… Continue reading Five Pounds

Where do you begin when you start thinking about your father’s Alzheimer’s? How far back in time do you go to revive memories, to reflect upon your life with him and compare the past with the present, while trying not to worry about the future? How does nostalgia mingle with sorrow, tiredness of constant caregiving… Continue reading What’s my name

Uncertainty. It’s an eleven-letter word, but it brings so much with it and can, if we let it, take over multiple aspects of our lives, leaving us feeling powerless. Do we welcome it when it knocks on the door or do we just run away from the door? If we let it in, what do… Continue reading Is it going to rain

Ever reminisce about childhood days when things were simpler and lives were less complicated? In this personal story, I share my childhood memories from summers spent in my grandparents’ home in India. What regrets and memories do we bury and cherish as we move through time and slowly drift away from our families? If we… Continue reading Summer at their home