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past loves
I found two books today in my library that I had no idea I had: Wide Sargasso Sea, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. I have no memory of buying them – I hadn’t even heard of Jean Rhys until last week – so, absolutely surprised, I opened the books to find them addressed to me by…
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And other worlds
After switching off all the lights tonight, a memory: Last year, an astrologer, after looking at my chart – the cosmic one – asked me to show him both my hands : without even taking a moment, he says, “so, you write?”
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Bārādari
Inside the city palace of Jaipur, there is a small beautiful café : Bārādari, or a twelve-doored space. From where I am sitting, I can hear a fountain, and can see its water moving as light on one of the walls and for a moment my eye shifts from the light to the blue sky…
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bougainvillea untitled
In the evening yesterday, I was sitting reading a book, with a cup of tea, sometimes looking at the pink bougainvillea, when my mother – who is no expert on gardening – tells me that she’d read once that the only way to make the plant bloom is to starve it of water, then water…
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On dreams
Tonight, my heart feels tender, as in weak, as in somehow its pulse is slower and it beats loudly, so these things happen, in a dream someone asked me to title their poem — but you can help me, you know, you could’ve helped me — but I woke up before I could — memories…
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Clarice and I
I have struggled all my life to cure this tendency to daydream, lest it should carry me into remote waters. On a boat, rowing through the rose waters of the Sambhar salt lake, passing shimmering cranes and pink flamingoes, I reach the unreachable shore – the one until then only accessible through books and mental…
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On questions
I remember the time when I was working at a publishing house — torturous months of my life, where at the end, I thought this is how it will all end, me coming to work every day, reading manuscripts that violated my soul, day after day I will fade into a non – entity in…
Beyond Six Rivers 