A Note to Swarathma

A Note to Swarathma

I had just entered college to study pure sciences with a bad reputation as a quitter. I had quit engineering after two semesters as I found the course not complimenting with my vision of life. I was always fond of arts like writing, literature and music. The very...
Happy Birthday to Me…

Happy Birthday to Me…

Happy Birthday to Me… I wanted to write something about childhood when I realised it was Children’s day on November 14th. Today is the 23rd of November and It took nine days for me to actually sit down to write something. I see the tendency in me to judge myself...
IYKYK

IYKYK

Persistence and transition We live in the times where one product or a service is offered by multiple brands and businesses. All are competing for the attention of the average customer in real and virtual spaces. The competition has become so aggressive and...
Medium

Medium

Writing is not the medium. Writing happens when the writer becomes a medium. My brother Pavan KJ is a photographer. We have a lot of shared history and we share a close relationship. We generally feel that we have a deep understanding of each other’s...
Gompa Leh

Gompa Leh

Hills, not Hills, Mountains… With hardly any vegetation on them. Weather so harsh and extreme that there is comfort found only in the narrow valleys, close to water which turns to ice in the winter. That is where we find most of the living beings in Ladakh. In the...
13 Ways of Looking at a Poem

13 Ways of Looking at a Poem

Why should I forgo what I think or feel about a poem for what a literary theory says about it?  It is commonly believed that poetry cannot be paraphrased, that once you start unfolding its meaning, line by line, its true essence, like that of a dream upon waking and...