Hindi

खराब वक़्त

कफ़न ओढ़े हुए हैं दुनिया काफ़ी दिनों से कुछ मासूम बच्चों की खिलखिलाहट-ए-आवाज़ों के साथ। चाँद का भी वो आख़िरी नहाना, मुर्दा सूरज का वो दफ़्नाना, ता

Poem

Thoughts: The Silence That Speaks

The lost maiden, Wanders deep within, With thoughts of him, and what had drawn her in, She willed those thoughts to leave,  Recalling the torture she reprieved, The sheer panic and congestion,  As he stood towering, with bated aggression, Stocky, wide and unattractive,  Unloving the maiden with fierce refraction, He

Poem

Silenced

I have been stripped of my gift,  Of flawless words that I could sift,  Left with nothing but flesh on bones, And a mind that brims with unwanted ghouls,  And whilst parts of me may wish for release,  The release from the grip he has on my soul,  A grip

English

Reflections on Writing

Lately, I’ve been consumed by a single thought: I think I’m finally ready to write a book and publish it. Over the years, I’ve gathered snippets, stories, and reflections, fragments of moments that now feel ready to take shape. I can picture someone picking up this book

English

Metro conundrum

A boy aligns his little feet with the metro footsteps, as if the bigger ones would help him go faster. But they don’t, instead they turn him into a snail. I try to mimic him because I have nowhere to be.  Have you ever played that game where you

English

Only You

You move, and something in me realigns — like the tide remembering what it was made for. You are both stillness and fever, the breath I lose between the pulse and the echo. When you laugh, light burns through fog — a wound made radiant. Without you, the world keeps spinning, but

English

Kindness

I don't desire to lift the trophy for my aches I had nights of haunting and terrible storm those with retakes So I close my eyes to find my nightingale and offsprings of tree inhabitants And breathed in vision to search for the finest blooms, the season'

Hindi

ऐ हमसफ़र

ख़्वाबों को अकेले देखना और उन्हें सींचना रातों को करवटें बदलते हुए सोचना और सब पीछे छोड़ना ऐ हमसफ़र जो इस कश्मकश-सी ज़िंदगी में पाँव रखना चाहो तो आना आना हज़ारों बे

English

Ashes of a Forgotten Dawn

I walked through corridors that had no doors, where the walls whispered my old names and the floor remembered my weight. A clock melted in my palm; its hands pointed toward things I could not reach, and I let them slip like sand through broken fingers. The air tasted of

English

Beyond Touch

Some connections don’t need hands to hold— they live in the quiet between heartbeats, in the way your name still feels like home when whispered in my mind. They don’t fade with time; they just settle deeper, like roots that keep growing even in dry earth. Sometimes I

English

The Land they Drew

Off they went to a land Nurtured by their love and struggle. They survived there till age 84 Yet it always seems like they are 48 Someday one of them left the grounds of heaven To another heaven, not as wonderful. The other one departed soon, but my memory is

English

The Hug She'll Remember

His arms found her, and for a moment, the noise in her head bowed its head in silence. She remembered the air changing when he pulled her close. It wasn’t love exactly, it was something quieter, like her heart whispering, “So this is what safe feels like.” A moment