(For desiclub.com) “A beautiful tone and a soft touch, we would make music all day looooong; she would be firm and forgiving at the same time; A mother, a wife, a daughter, a grandmother….that’s what music would be like if she were a woman” Just like the name of their new album “Breaking Barriers” this […]
(A short scene based on Artemesia Gentleschi’s “Judith and Holofernes: Series, written in iambic pentamemter) CAST The Maidservant: A young woman, heavily pregnant and a product of the society that she lives in and the way she has been treated all her life; 25 Agonisto: An important, high ranking official of what would eventually become […]
He did it in rhythm with the smattered applause and laughter in the neighboring tent. Up and down, side to side, his fingers discovering crevices and lines in his face that he had forgotten existed. As the sound of clapping faded, his need became urgent. Harder and faster he scrubbed, till the soap stung his […]
He’s grown bigger over the years. Today’s he’s about 6 feet 9 and still growing. With burly arms and thick neck, he’s an intimidating figure. I think he even has a tattoo, on his left arm, but I’ve never seen it. He’s always around; lurking in the corner of every room that I enter. In […]
A left from the famous Sitladevi Temple and past one of the only surviving wheat mills in Bombay. Ahead of the hutments and the little stalls that sell vegetables to housewives who haggle in their nighties for a rupee and beyond the chicken coup that does not smell anymore because I have passed it so […]
Today he would go to the temple. As he got closer, the mixed smell of cow dung and marigold assaulted his senses leaving a bitter taste at the back of his throat. The crowds got thicker, but he dodged the shuffling bodies, gliding in a clear confident path with a dexterity that could only have come […]
There is something absurd about it. The sudden throwing back of the head, the widening of lips and baring of teeth, the sharp intake of air and the equally sudden outburst of it and not to forget, the sound; the strange sound that comes in waves, wracking the body leaving the person breathless. It could […]
A few fleeting personal thoughts, from my greatly under-journaled sojourn in Europe. […]