मुखड़ा : जबरे पिया फेंके हो ऐसा जाल अबके-अबके के जाए नहीं बचके मन बावरा सरकारी बस की चढ़ा छत पे छत पे के खाए कैसे धचके भरी दोपहरी लगी कचहरी अब married-वैरीड हो! रस्सी तुम्हारी और खूँटी तुम्हारी अब married-वैरीड हो! जबरे पिया फेंके हो ऐसा जाल अबके-अबके-अबके… लाख टके का सावन […]
Art exists to poke fingers in society’s festering sores. Art exists to blast open the sewers so that it’s stench makes difficult for people to breathe. Art exists to give a voice to voiceless. Art exists to scream out loud what we are too afraid to admit to ourselves. Art exists to spit in our […]
I’m heartbroken! Theatre legend Arvind Joshi has passed away. He was one of the greatest living actors, and I am fortunate enough to have met him and worked with him for a few months. The year was 2000, and I was an infant in the entertainment industry, barely a year old in Mumbai, having moved […]
So, there’s this uproarious debate once again with controversy’s favorite child – Salman Rushdie. He says he was stopped from coming to the Jaipur Lit. Fest. by the government on the pretext of ‘danger to his life’ even though there was no concrete evidence of any threat against him. Government on the other hand is […]
____DAY______ faces faces millions of them. eyes running into foreheads: cheeks into chin: ears into lips: a messy mass, nothing’s personal. anymore. _____NIGHT______ shadows of darkness: NIGHTBLIND. the sun rusted: the moon arrested: and the vulnerable stars keep on falling like dry peepal leaves. but then leaves do find a ground. at […]
