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Our lives polar… an excerpt from Blue Door Notes
January 15, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Our lives polar… an excerpt from Blue Door Notes
song of the street
January 15, 2026 at 6:17 PM
song of the street
Two night shift food kiosk colleagues… Umair ji and Mujahid ji
January 15, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Two night shift food kiosk colleagues… Umair ji and Mujahid ji
Smoker’s soliloquy… Alam ji, a carpenter, in thoughts
January 15, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Smoker’s soliloquy… Alam ji, a carpenter, in thoughts
Blue dome’s rush hour blues
January 15, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Blue dome’s rush hour blues
can you really trust her… she is so double-faced—see!
January 15, 2026 at 2:19 PM
can you really trust her… she is so double-faced—see!
Just a hint of sea in the landlocked city… balconies by the evening marina
January 15, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Just a hint of sea in the landlocked city… balconies by the evening marina
in memory of a green tree… a green door of wood
January 15, 2026 at 10:41 AM
in memory of a green tree… a green door of wood
portrait of his inward gaze
January 15, 2026 at 9:17 AM
portrait of his inward gaze
sir, he careful… citizen at work
January 15, 2026 at 9:00 AM
sir, he careful… citizen at work
The traffic sounds from the roads spread evenly upon the sprawling park during the day, and hang over it like an invisible cloud cover… my dispatch on a city park in winter, please read.
January 15, 2026 at 7:35 AM
The traffic sounds from the roads spread evenly upon the sprawling park during the day, and hang over it like an invisible cloud cover… my dispatch on a city park in winter, please read.
writer type… with her typewriter
January 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
writer type… with her typewriter
Barbershop Homer—on finding poetry in the city… my daily City Life dispatch in Hindustan Times today!
January 15, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Barbershop Homer—on finding poetry in the city… my daily City Life dispatch in Hindustan Times today!
portrait of a pretentious chairman
January 15, 2026 at 4:05 AM
portrait of a pretentious chairman
Her Hamletian side… Lady Julia in Delhi mist
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Her Hamletian side… Lady Julia in Delhi mist
Season of mists and mellow melancholies… stones of Delhi during a particular time of the year
January 15, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Season of mists and mellow melancholies… stones of Delhi during a particular time of the year
Like the sole punctuation in the white page… bird in mist
January 15, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Like the sole punctuation in the white page… bird in mist
Bedtime reading… always the Russian Fairy Tales! But, oh Tsarevich, save me from Baba Yaga!
January 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Bedtime reading… always the Russian Fairy Tales! But, oh Tsarevich, save me from Baba Yaga!
Indian capital’s bestest toasted rusk found here… Diamond Bakery, Chitli Qabar Bazar, Old Delhi
January 14, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Indian capital’s bestest toasted rusk found here… Diamond Bakery, Chitli Qabar Bazar, Old Delhi
Super-loving your colour scheme, sir!
January 14, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Super-loving your colour scheme, sir!
“Before I got my eye put out – I liked as well to see”… because I’m seeking to understand how visuality works in Emily Dickinson’s poetry and how it gets expressed simultaneously in linguistic signs and medical symptoms… “So safer – guess – with just my soul open the window pane”
January 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM
“Before I got my eye put out – I liked as well to see”… because I’m seeking to understand how visuality works in Emily Dickinson’s poetry and how it gets expressed simultaneously in linguistic signs and medical symptoms… “So safer – guess – with just my soul open the window pane”
fish in the air
January 14, 2026 at 5:32 PM
fish in the air
piece of moon
January 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
piece of moon
eavesdropping leaves… portrait of a city tree
January 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
eavesdropping leaves… portrait of a city tree
because the staircase is more than just a fire exit
January 14, 2026 at 11:37 AM
because the staircase is more than just a fire exit