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am in the news!

posted by adee on 16/08/2013 in daily life, Delhi, photo posts, writing

delhidreams got featured in the Hindustan Times today, check page 11 of HT City.

delhidreams in HT
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five thirty pm at the Delhi airport

posted by adee on 13/08/2013 in daily life, Delhi, poetry

the orb smiles
pale and paling
its gaze scans walls
covering floor to ceiling

this, is that glass palace
where they all eagerly arrive
to throw away their gift, time so callous
where impatience and idleness thrive

soon, the angels will call
names strange and names familiar
soon, this wait will come to a stall
and in a different place, they’ll reappear

in flying chariots, they’ll leave
carried on the gilded wings that gleam
and those left behind will weave
moments, memories, mellifluous dreams

-adee

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LOTR and Laura Marling

posted by adee on 03/08/2013 in literature, music, poetry, Reading, updates

at the gates of Rivendell i fell asleep, with Frodo fading out and help just in reach, i woke up to a feather on my kitchen sink, a cup of chai and this song…this song and oh my, how well does she sing…

someday when am i writer and a lyricist well-known, i’ll look back to this day, this song, this afternoon…

“He wrote I’m broke, please send for me/ But I’m broken too and spoken for, do not tempt me” Laura Marling – What He Wrote (Live from Abbey Road)

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what i am is what i wanted to be

posted by adee on 01/08/2013 in art, childhood, daily life, writing

when i was little, and at various times during this littlehood, i wanted to be an astronomer, a train driver, a pilot, a businessman, a matchbox collector, a professor and various other people that i eventually didn’t become. and maybe because i couldn’t be any of them, that i became a writer. as only in writing i found out that i could be anyone and everyone.

perhaps, it was fate that nudged me towards it. perhaps, it was my faith in myself that did it. (look at me talking like an accomplished literary personality, i’ve not even been published yet) what i do know for sure is that when you really ache for something you need, some sort of alchemy happens and you get it. really. it doesn’t look that obvious in the beginning, when the hurt is raw and the wound is sore, but wishes, genuine springing from the heart-well wishes do get fulfilled.

maybe, all of us are already what we’ve always (deep down our subconscious) wanted to be. maybe, we all are works in progress towards our eventual destiny. or maybe, all we need to change our fate is to have faith in our ability.

what do you think?

-adee @delhidreams

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home is where the hurt is

posted by adee on 21/07/2013 in daily life, poetry, writing

 

the root aches for the sky
and earth sought, by those who fly
the tears run away from the eye
and lovers part ways without a sigh
…
no one knows where home is anymore
where they come from, or where they arrive
neither anchored nor adrift
the globe rotates and clocks vaporize
…
the poet sits still while seeking around
an island wet, in a sea that’s dry
where all that he lost can still be found
where a beloved waits, and hopes reside

-adee

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pain is good.

posted by adee on 05/07/2013 in daily life, photo posts, writing
pain is good
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Neverwhere -an unreview

posted by adee on 03/07/2013 in daily life, literature, Reading
neverwhere
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to read or not to read- my unfinished books list

posted by adee on 30/06/2013 in daily life, literature, updates

a couple of years back, i had the good habit of taking one book (two at max.) and finishing them from start to end.

then ‘museum of innocence’ happened. and i got so intimidated by the ‘me-ness’ of the lead character that i stopped reading it midway. have picked it up once more since then and left it exactly at the previous stage. somehow, can’t gather myself enough to complete the book!

and it triggered a domino effect. agreed that my personal life has been in a mess for these couple of years, but i slowly got into the habit of starting books which i never completely read. the sole exception being the ‘game of thrones’ series 😀

now this list of unfinished books has gotten really long and has started to bug me. maybe by documenting it here i’ll correct my mistake and steer towards that good old habit of mine.

today i’m reading Neil Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’. am really really enjoying it and have completed half the book by now, in a single day. tonight and a couple of days metro ride to office, and i’ll be through with it for sure.

also bought Brown’s ‘Inferno’ and Coelho’s ‘Manuscript Found In Accra’ today. and i suppose these are going to be next on the reading list.

the list of unfinished books is:

01. The Museum Of Innocence by my master, Orhan Pamuk
02. White Mughals by William Dalrymple
03. Dharmaraja by C.V. Raman Pillai (though am not sure if i’ll pick it up again, looks too complicated)
04. The Book Of Ram by Devdutt Patnaik
05. The Difficulty Of Being Good by Gurcharan Das (my favorite of the lot, am actually reading it kinda one chapter at a month)
06. The Way Beyond Any Way- Talks on the Sarvasar Upanishad by OSHO (man, this is a fabulous book, he really takes you deep into the world of meanings behind meanings. got it from the Sahitya Academy library and have read the first chapter five times at least. can’t or don’t want to go beyond that it seems!)
07. Cashflow Quadrant by Robert T. Kiyosaki, and
08. The Naive And The Sentimental Novelist by again, Mr. Pamuk

believe me, this is just the tip of the iceberg. there are many more at office which i read or try to read while i’m going for client meetings on other side of the town. then there are numerous collections of essays, short stories, poetry that i consciously chose not to finish in one go.

any suggestions?

-adee

 

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before that last try

posted by adee on 29/06/2013 in daily life, poetry

there are words that i haven’t said,
dreams that i haven’t dreamed,

there are vows that i haven’t made,
hopes that i haven’t pinned,

there is death, i know,
waiting out there in the shadow,

but there is life,
this wonderful strife-full lie,

so much, so soon, i’ve to live
before my last try…

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bachpan ke din

posted by adee on 28/05/2013 in childhood, daily life, poetry
bachpan ke din

 

first posted on Saturday, November 19, 2005

http://delhidreams.blogspot.in/2005/11/bachpan-kuch-shabd.html

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