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A Letter from the Wooden Box

 I just went to camping, as I sit down under a tree...ouch! And i hurt my butt with a pin! Ahhh...what it is? As I dust out the place, i found a wooden box with a letter in it. As I start reading... "They say the first prayer wasn’t a request, but a realisation. Blessings began beliefs. Before there were temples or scriptures, there was simply the warmth of the sun on cold skin and the sudden, unearned kindness of a stranger. We didn’t learn to believe first; we felt the goodness, and then we had to find a name for the source." I find myself returning to my mother’s words often now. To be honest, I was never a person of "words" or lectures. When she spoke them, I didn't listen the way I should have. I was too busy in building a life to notice the foundation she was laying for me. Now, I have her words and her memories, but I no longer have her thoughts. Alzheimer’s has claimed them. Most of the time, she stays silent. She doesn't remember the version of me s...

The Box (डब्बा)

  Cue-Routine-Reward thats how a habit develop in us or in anyone, thats what my doctor say everytime i visit him. But i use my patient card (kelptomania patient) as my saviour. whenever i pick something from any where it was all fun for me... believe me it was, after that day i never pick anything from anywhere. What happened with me i will tell you all in brief.  It was fine day i belong to upper middle class family i am earning money enough to indulge in or buy  anything, but i have a habit of picking anything i find interesting sometime intentionally sometime not but i pick and that is stealing clearly because i don't ask for any permission from its owner.  I was traveling from train Delhi to Patna, its a three day journey by train enough time to see many things and pick what i like. Soon a man sit next to me he was looking sad and i am talkative person. So i start a conversation with him.  Me:"hey uncle ! You okay ! " Uncle:"yes i am, mind your own business...

~~~~The Singing Bird~

  ~~~~The Singing Bird~~~~~~~~~~~~ __________________________ Autumn decorated the earth, and bitto cuckoo was singing his song fully. As the leaves fell down, his signing was taking away everyone's peace! As for them a forest should stay in a calm and peaceful manner...But he keeps singing, and finally the taktak monkey asks him, "why are you so annoying?" Bitto said, "I just want to sing and sing until I feel thirsty for water."  Taktak was surprised and said, "oh! You are a very gutsy bitto! I think I can be proud of you." Bitto: oh I don't think so, as I sing so badly.  Taktak: okay, but why do you think like this? Bitto: I can feel the irritation in the air. That's why sometimes I cry when I sing. (*Peehaaahahhaapee) Taktak: Oho, don't worry bitto. Start signing... As bitto sings out his heart and a man was walking by and he starts clapping after listening to the bitto song. Everyone was amazed, not because of bitto's song but bec...

रात की बात

 शादी को कुछ वक़्त ही हुआ, खुद ही से बात कर ही रही थी की ख्याल आया...अब तो सुधर जा यार शादी हो गई है तेरी, आखिर कब तक हर चीज से बात करेगी! पीछे मुड़ी तो सासू मां खड़ी थी, एक बैग के साथ और बोली, " हम जा रहे है बाहर, तुम और हरमन ही हो अब घर पे दो दिन के लिए।"  वो मुस्कुराई और चली गई! अजीब  लगा कुछ पर फिर दरवाजा बंद करके अपने काम में व्यस्त हो गई।  कुछ देर बाद फोन की घंटी बजी... (हरमन कॉलिंग...) मैं : अच्छा हुआ आप ने कॉल कर ली, खाने में क्या बनाओ ममी और पापा तो बुआ जी के घर पे गए है और... वो: (*मेरी  बात बीच में काटते हुए) हां हां पता है। तुम खाने की चिंता छोड़ो और अभी मैंने तुम्हारे लिए दो ब्यूटीशियन घर पे भेजवाई है ड्रेस के साथ रात को मिलते खाना मैं ले आऊंगा तुम बस तैयार रहना। (* ये कहते ही उसने फोन काट दिया) मैं कुछ इस से पहले कहती या करती की दरवाजे की घंटी बजी और दो औरतें, पूरी तरह से ड्रेस अप मेरे सामने खड़ी थी... मैं बोल पड़ी," जी देखिए आप ड्रेस दे दीजिए मैं कोई और सर्विस नही चाहती।"  और उनमें से एक ने अपना फोन मुझे दिया और बोली आप के लिए इस में वाइस नोट...

It was like magic... (Short-Open-end-story)

  I don't know how I don't know why? But I still remember everything about that day. It was my exam day, I wasn't nervous because of my exam.  I was nervous because I was going to travel by metro to Trans Yamuna. And that place wasn't a familiar one.   Plus to this, I hate to travel. So with no choice, I have to board the metro. I reached there on time, and the exam went well. So it was time to leave that premises, that school and again I was at the metro station of Laxmi Nagar. As it was the nearby one...I heard an announcement at the station that the train was going to arrive late. With nothing much to do and obviously no phone I try to search for a local phone, call at home, tell them everything and start waiting for the metro.    It was more than twenty minutes, and I just started doodling on the last pages of my notes. Soon I hear a sweet tune, more like a familiar one!  I tried to listen, it was a tune of 'Tu Mile' by Kumar Sanu. I wasn't, no in fact ...

कवि की पत्नी (लघु कथा)

 आज भी याद है बहुत खुश हुई थी मैं, जब पता लगा था की ये कविता लिखते है। दिल को लगा चलो अब कभी ना कभी मुझ पर भी कविता लिखी जाएगी।  दिखने में भी अच्छे और ऊपर से कवि साथ की साथ कॉलेज के प्रोफेसर। सब सहेलियों में से मान लिया था की भगवान ने मेरे व्रत का सही जवाब दिया है। शुरू के दिनों में तो यू लगता था की हो सकता है, शर्मीले है इसलिए अभी तक कुछ ना लिख पाए मुझ पर, आज शादी की सालगिराह है, दिखती हूं आज भी याद दिलाना पड़ेगा या याद होगा जो की मुश्किल है। ख्वाब था अब ज़िन्दगी की सुबह देखी तो पता लगा की कवि की पत्नी बनने से भी कविता तुम पर नही बनती! अजीब कभी कभी लगता है की प्यार ही नही करते, पर दिमाग तभी वो दिन याद दिला देता जिस दिन इन से पहली मुलाकात हुई थी। तब तो पता भी न था की इन्ही से शादी बात चल रही है, और इन्हें खूब सुना दिया की पीछा कर रहे हो! जब की ये अपने पिता जी के पास आए थे, हमारे घर ही। पर जो भी हो आज तो कवि साहिब से कविता बनावा के ही रहूंगी। इतने में ही... (ये उठ गए) "निर्मल चाय मिलेगी फिर बाहर सैर करने जाऊंगा, आज का दिन खास है तो घर पर रहूंगा। " (मन ही मन लड्डू फोटे मेरे ...

Paper Plane (short story)

 "Vedansh is my name and here go my plane" a boy on his terrace shout but no one gets disturb. As it's a normal thing for all. Again he shout " mumma here ggggooooo...my plane " then i run down stairs to get it back and fly it again. But plane colour changes from white to red! How it can just happen again and again. I am just trying to figure it out buttt...what is that no way!  (Run fastly from there I hide under a bed its my room I guess why light is not here yet in the house why sun shine so bright outside ! ) These all thoughts are coming in my mind. And that dark shadow start following me again but I know I am secure in my room as mumma always say nobody can harm me if I stay in room under the bed. But this shadow always scare me a lot. It is just so cold like ice or may be something more cold than ice.! I sleep under my bed and nobody is looking for me! I am just a 10years old mumma! Papa!  Badi-mumma! Bade-papa!  Anyone who can hear me please speak I am s...