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My Lost Love

My Lost Love

On the shores of the glorious Mamallapuram beach,
I knelt down, looking into your soulful eyes,
and held out a sapphire wedding ring,
hoping against hope you would consent to be mine.
And to my delight, you mouthed the word ‘yes’ with a smile.

You kept house for me,
for years and years.
You brought up our children with care.
Looked after them while I was busy,
with my work and my quest for money and success.

You made sure,
that my...

Love By Moonlight

Love by Moonlight

I turn around in my bed,
and reach out for you, my darling,
forgetting that you have left for your heavenly abode,
leaving me all alone in this world.

I look at the luminous clock by my bedside.
And find it is half an hour past midnight.
If you had been alive and by my side,
we would have entwined our bodies together.

I look up at the ceiling,
I am able to make out the blades of the fan.
And unable to withstand my grief an...

An Ode to My Departed Love

An Ode To My Departed Love

The chords I played on my guitar,
were like handcuffs of love made of sweet-smelling Jasmine,
with which we chained our wrists together,
and bound our heart and soul to become one.

We have known each other,
for more than a score of years.
We have grown up together,
with you always cheering me on in my musical journey.

You have always encouraged me,
assuring me that your boundless love,
will always be on my side,
thru...

I Go Picking Seashells

I Go Picking Seashells

I look at the deep blue sea,
stretching endlessly before me,
as I sit on the sands, alone, very alone,
pondering over the vicissitudes of life.

It has just been a day,
since I had buried my soul mate,
of forty-five odd years,
and grief was choking every pore of my body.

It would be so easy to walk into the sea
and do away with myself and my grief.
It would be easy to drown for I had never learned how to swim,
I rose; my...

The Magical Event Of My Childhood In Manamadurai

The Magical Event Of My Childhood In Manamadurai

I still remember the times I spent in the tiny town of Manamadurai close to the southernmost tip of India when I was a kid. Every summer holiday my father used to pack me and my sister off to this lazy town nestling near the Island of Rameswaram where my uncle and his family lived with my maternal grandmother. All my other cousins also used to assemble at this place for the summer vacati...

Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #3 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan

Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #3 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan

Well folks, you have read two instalments of guest posts in the random ramblings series by my sister Sudha Somanathan. Thanks to you readers the posts have been phenomenally successful and I am sure all of you agree with me that Sudha possesses great writing skills and ought to take up writing on a more serious note. I would also like to let you know that after this p...

Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #2 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan

Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #2 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan

This is the second guest post by my sister Sudha Somanathan in the Random Ramblings series. I am sure you would have enjoyed the Random Ramblings I presented last week. This week she speaks of festivals and what friendships mean to us as children and as adults and a few other things. She also touches on assisted living and what it means in these modern days when ch...

Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #1 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan

Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #1 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan

About the author Sudha Somanathan: My sister Sudha Somanathan works as an Ophthalmologist in the National Health Services in UK. She has recently been dabbling in writing a series of Facebook posts she refers to as the ‘Random Ramblings’! She is a very talented writer and I have been constantly needling her to start a blog of her own but she tells me she does not have...

365 Dni – Netflix Latest Release – Movie Review

365 Dni – Netflix Latest Release – A Movie Review

 

I would like to straight away tell you this. Don’t Ever Watch 365 Dni, the latest release on Netflix especially if you are a feminist like me. It will leave your blood boiling… Please do read on.

I normally do not write reviews of movies. I have subscribed to Netflix and Amazon Prime only recently and I have to say I have watched some extremely good web serials and movies on these...

Who Killed Nina Daruwalla? – Ajit Yadav – Book Review

Who Killed Nina Daruwalla? – Ajit Yadav – Book Review

Title: Who Killed Nina Daruwalla?

Author: Ajit Yadav

No of pages: 50

Format: PDF

Download Link: Who Killed Nina Daruwalla?

Synopsis:

Ambitious, a successful entrepreneur, and a divorcee — Nina Daruwalla is all this and more.
Her ex-husband abhors her, her lover is mad about her, a reporter wants a scoop from her, and her cousin again needs her help.

She ends up dead, her th...