HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, MAMMA!

I remember the last time I wished you. How you just went to your room and crawled up on the bed and turned away from me when I sat down beside you. You said: "It's all a waste of time and money. I am not a child anymore and you are not a kid either." It hurt me, so I just left feeling bitter and a little mad. I had wished then sitting in my room. "I should have shown more often how much I loved and cared." Love without an expression is the most selfish of love. Things changed after that day. I hugged you more. I kissed you more. I sat down with you and had our little conversations, especially during lunch or dinner. I still remember how you would always wait for me to come back home from...

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REMEMBERING YOU, MOM...

I remember your laughter, how you’d smile mischievously and then the smile would broaden and then burst into peels of laughter. I remember your quietness, how you’d go so far away in your thoughts with a lost look in your eyes. I never knew what you thought of or what you saw in your visions, I was just glad to see a silent reassurance in your smile when I called out for you. I remember your anger, how you’d all of a sudden go so silent on me. No word spoken or any frustrations shown just complete silence even when serving out the dinner to me. I remember your disappointments, how you’d try to still be a part of my changing life which had somehow outgrown your need in everything. You would...

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To Mom And All The Women In My Life...

I learned love, I learned patience, I learned silence, I learned strength... I learned all that is good in me from the women in my life. There were few good men too, who showed the harsh realities and opened my eyes to the world outside of me. Men live looking outside in. Women live looking inside out. Different perspectives and different lessons learned. As I sit down and think about all the women in my life - from my mom and sister to all the friends and the rest - I can clearly say I have met many different personalities. But deep down somehow they are all the same, when they love you, they really truly love you. If their whole heart is in something, they give it their all. I have been...

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तेरे बगैर.. माँ (Without You, Mother)

कई सिरहाने बदले है मैंने पर वो सुकून कही मिला नहीं जो तेरे गोद में सर रख कर सोने से मिलता था, माँ... देखते है, सुनते है अंगिनत किस्से-कहानियाँ उनपर मगर अब यक़ीन कम होता है वो बचपन की तेरी एक राजा और एक रानी की कहानी अब भी सच्ची लगती है, माँ... डर जाता हूँ, मैं सहम जाता हूँ जब भी बुरा सपना कोई आँखों को ढूंढ़ लेता है तू दौड़ के आएगी सहलाने मुझे पल भर को ये उम्मीद रहता है, माँ... कई बार की है कोशिश लेकिन चुटकियों से मात खा जाता हूँ मीठे का मिठास, नमकीन का नमक अंदाजों में घुल जाते है जुबां पर अब भी ठहरा है मेरे वो स्वाद तेरे हाथों का, माँ... दिल को बहलाने के बहाने कई है मगर ऐसा कोई मिला नहीं जो तेरी तरह तेरी कमी को मिटा सके जैसे टूटे खिलौनों के रोने पर तेरे एक छूने से मेरी हँसी जुड़ जाती थी,...

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