Ant R

A couple of days back, I was caught in a meeting where people were revewing a project. It was a client review, wherein there were people from the client side (mainly government), an international donor that’s funding the project and the project proponent, a private entity. I was part of none of them actually, but I represented the client [...]

I went home last week. But that’s not news. What’s news is that I took the train. Voluntarily. Was tired of being called ‘princess’, ‘diva’ etc by the travel gang so took it up like a challenge. But not before I realised it was a silly thing to do. Trains are not built for unsocials like me who [...]

Unshow yourself 
Even if I tell you otherwise 
I maybe naive 
Something I did not do 
gives me the right to be 
I may be weak 
 because I always was 
I am not the one to change my constitution 
or Colors 
But YOU have no room for leeway 
You have had your way 
All this while 
Till this day 
Try not to trace it back 
Cause when you left 
I [...]

So, Dussehra over, Diwali is over, and all I have written is some harakiri inducing poetry that doesn’t rhyme in a single place. God knows what I was upto. I don’t keep track of stuff I do, I hope he does, he would need it someday for the ‘evaluation’. Anyhow, barring a few mortal occasions, life’s not been [...]

Sometimes I feel I’m doing a favour to humanity by merely existing. Of course nobody else I know subscribes to this. Alright it has got nothing to do with my qualitative inputs to the world, about which, the lesser talked the better. I mean if we start talking about our productivity or value to the world, we’ll only end [...]

After 3 months of exile, I had decided to go home hoping to get some rest and have home cooked food cooked by someone other than me, for a change. Well, let me tell you that my primary objective was not met. My trip lasted 10 days of which 4 days were booked by my folks [...]

So now that I’m gone
Strewn from your life
Far flung from your boundless vicinity
Into the dark dungeons of some other
Hoping it would make you glad
Someday

Here I am back to ask you my lady
Are you happy?
To have let go of me?
After all those years of distress
That I have caused you
Apologies due, in cue
For the waterworks

But why is [...]

My undying addiction for food and travel shows does not necessarily imply my appreciation for all of them. Two things that put me off are impractical suggestions and fake reactions. For example, you obviously cannot use huge slabs of butter in your everyday cooking. Neither do you deep fry vegetable fritters in clarified butter. Nor [...]

I was suddenly caught by this bug when a friend of mine suggested a book on erotic stories for ‘inspiration’. “Inspiration for what?” I asked. “Not like I need any inspiration for ……”For writing” he said before I could take the conclusion to uncharted terrotories. The book was a compilation of stories by select authors and some of them [...]

It’s been a while and hence 
I’ve gained some vision 
And have lost some power 
And have tampered with reason 
The vision being of being 
The power being of thought 
The reason being to judge 
I doubt what I have got 
What I now see in the mirror
Is an eerie blurring figure 
And the smoky eyes that shine 
Of this pale misty stranger 
I’ve tried and [...]