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15Dec
24 comments on “Mind Lies like a Mango”

Mind Lies like a Mango

Posted by umashankaron December 15, 2019December 24, 2019in Such is Life24 Comments

Yes, I have descended to filching from weird quotes of indeterminate, ambivalent origin and intent. True, I have faltered, faded, fumbled and stumbled into that eternal bin. The crispy tang of the green fruit before ripening into succulence has mellowed…

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02Feb
26 comments on “Unwaiting for Godot”

Unwaiting for Godot

Posted by umashankaron February 2, 2019April 14, 2019in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst26 Comments

Disquieted and quietened we stand, the pair of us at the brink of the Internet, conjoined and disjointed at the splice of consciousness and a unique resource locator. Beguiled enough to have waited for ages, we have figured it’s time…

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25Nov
46 comments on “’Oumuamua”

’Oumuamua

Posted by umashankaron November 25, 2017December 12, 2017in Such is Life46 Comments
The fugitive 'Oumuamua

My muse is a furious fugitive from a foreign galaxy, not unlike the ‘intergalactic interloper ’Oumuamua’, who having orbited the fuzzy nebula of my brain is now poised for an exodus to unknown dark matters. In the years now a…

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21Jan
46 comments on “Why Did the Chicken Write a Blog?”

Why Did the Chicken Write a Blog?

Posted by umashankaron January 21, 2017December 23, 2019in Such is Life46 Comments

ARNAB GOSWAMI: Can you tell this, on this channel, right in front of all of us: why can’t the chicken write a blog? The nation wants to know. RAHUL GANDHI: The chicken has written the biggest blog since Independence and…

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14Jan
16 comments on “The Orb of Hereafter”

The Orb of Hereafter

Posted by umashankaron January 14, 2017August 30, 2019in Such is Life16 Comments

About a week shy of the onset of the New Year, I presumptuously augmented the copyright notice at my blog to 2017. Don’t mistake me, I have long stopped caring about the trolls looking forward to plagiarizing my mumbling —anyone…

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03Jun
37 comments on “Nightfall of Blogging”

Nightfall of Blogging

Posted by umashankaron June 3, 2016June 4, 2016in Uncorked Angst37 Comments

As the nightfall of blogging closes in on me, I am more inclined to exhaling in private than gasping online, more willing to navigate through the bushes and backwaters than honking in the perpetual crescendo of the world wide web.…

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14May
32 comments on “With the Cicadas”

With the Cicadas

Posted by umashankaron May 14, 2016December 24, 2019in Poems32 Comments

The evening is long with shadows of the afternoon chopped and spent at the edges of green black leaves of pubescent jackfruit trees. With the cicadas I pause and creek. With the cicadas I wax and shrink. A blackbird took…

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30Aug
41 comments on “The Silence of the Scrolls”

The Silence of the Scrolls

Posted by umashankaron August 30, 2015September 21, 2015in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst41 Comments

It’s been a while since the nightingales sang in the darkness, fidgeting on boughs swaying in the night-wind. It’s been a while since the fingers splattered on the keyboard like an impromptu rain. There is this dike thin as rice…

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28Jan
28 comments on “A Pony in a Carousel”

A Pony in a Carousel

Posted by umashankaron January 28, 2015January 28, 2015in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst28 Comments

Like a pony fettered to a carousel, I’ve been travelling miles after circular miles and yet not have moved a millimetre from the pole I am suspended. I am not in charge of this motion, nor do I control this…

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03Dec
46 comments on “Writing is So Long”

Writing is So Long

Posted by umashankaron December 3, 2013December 9, 2013in Such is Life46 Comments

As a student of Logic in my younger years, the first two examples of absolutely positive and negative statements I stumbled upon were, (1)   Man is mortal. (2)   No man is perfect. So utterly true are these sentences and so…

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31May
66 comments on “Breeze on the Grass”

Breeze on the Grass

Posted by umashankaron May 31, 2013January 30, 2017in Such is Life66 Comments

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamouring to become visible." ~Vladimir Nabakov My dear readers, we have been together these past years. I have known…

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05May
43 comments on “The Song of Jar Jar Binks”

The Song of Jar Jar Binks

Posted by umashankaron May 5, 2013December 20, 2017in Poems, Uncorked Angst43 Comments

I can smell the diction Taliban just beyond my window. I can hear the rat-a-tat of their words, its robotic monotony, rattle of Kalashnikov. Peeking out the pane, I see skyscrapers raised on cacophony of flakes and wafers; buzz and…

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The Man Thing

The Vegetable Rice Chef

Three Tamarind Trees

The Bungalow by the Tracks

End of Dusk

The Monk in the Rain

Sam was Sad

Painter of Omens

A Wobbly-legged Boy

The Ghosts of Jamun Trees

Another Day like This

Going Blind

The Evening That Killed

The Giggling Gladiator

Ghazals in English

Lend Me the Assassin

Molten Moons

Afterwards

Wet Charcoal

The Icicled Bosom

Years in the Ash

A Leaf by the Nightfall

Pebbles You May Like

Luna's Story

‘Oumuamua

Thus Spake My Father

Hangmen of April

Goodbye, Cynthia Jobin

Haruki Murakami’s Well

The Same Night

The Nightfall of Blogging

The Crusted Slice

Silence of the Scrolls

Unnameable Things

Reading The Forgotten Waltz

Writing is So Long

Fungus on the Filter

Flames and Ashes

A Hole in My Pyjamas

The Slippery Slope

An Owl Reflects

The Last Salute

Truth Alone Triumphs

Zinfandel Moments

Ghostwalker

My son, must I stay?

Fra Lippo Lippi

While I be the Banker

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