Category: Artful

Musings on arts of all ages, and at times creating art with words – literature – myself.

Under the line

A line begins with the creation of a point; then expands into two {ends/beginnings}. A conceptual poem on lines and shapes.

On creation

A lot of what inspires creation as an artist, also inspires creation for life, andthis is not just the hunger and lust when you sense the intimacy of art, and ego. In a space contrasts, all duality creates tension; stress …

Letters relinquished

[extract taken from diary no. 34] I do not know why but I instantly knew… His last letter still hung on my wall, then he must have beenthe words on my skin, straight across myback carefully observing curves, and all …

Within my flow

Once upon a time, on a flight from Mumbai to Dubai, both golden cities in their own ways, marvels of their own times, some long gone, others resurrected. But this is more about what has been left behind, what is …

The wombat and the ego

Is spiritual emergency, a personal emergency which has to be excused in any way? Something greater achieved is something greater perceived with ego side by side. A little nudge, blatant, open praise. It stirs like the wombat inthe book, though …

Why we love women

An ode to women, to all those who love women, in a heterosexual and homosexual relationship. Or simply in a moment of admiration and grace.

A Tribute to The Cat in the Year of the Rat

Sentiment is like a grey day in the second half of the week. It takes you to places within, contrary to the world without which hints at being so much more clinical. Clean in emotion and thought. Facing the moments …

Expressions of Truth

An account of events in September I had hardly taken the book out the bag when I realised from signals given that my battle was lost in an instant; my spoken word forced into a category in their head which …