Wishful Thinking

  This was something I uploaded as my story on Instagram(@_pikamenon_). The post itself is self-explanatory. Everytime I read the newspaper, I get frustrated by the happenings in our world. There are times when i wish if everything would just pause and if the world would start to humanize humanity.

Norwegian Wood- Mental health review

India is under lockdown due to the Corona Virus and now I’m back at home, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, attending online classes (extra online classes for me, to sync the lateral entry problems -_– )  I just wanted to upload a post about a book which I read in the month …

Mysterious Stairways

After having a lavish meal from Xero Degrees, a café in Cannought Palace, Delhi, India,   my friend and I took a 1.3km walk to Hailey Road and we were stopped on our path by the magnificence of a beautiful street art. It was that of a woman trying to …

A Forgotten Land

Before I begin, let me recite an old Malayalam poem: Malarani kaadukal thingivingi Marathaka kandhiyil mungi mungi Karayum mizhiyum kavarnju minni Karayatturalasa graamabhangi – Edapally Changampuzha Krishna Pillai This was a poem which my grandparents taught me when I was a child.  Okay interesting is this famous poet’s children were …

Porphyria

I found a wishing well inside you Until you time travelled to the time We talk no more. A bond stronger than lovers can imagine I lost you to a ripple in time A decade ago. Surely you dream in infinites. Hold the fireflies, honey. Put them in the jar …

What Will Replace Silent Cries Then? (poem)

Ever thought that if instead of green stems, It was a vein flowing with crimson blood? If instead of white fibrous cellulose roots, It was thick black keratinous hair? If instead of waxy-cutaneous foliates, It was sebum sweating skin, That hums the pain which resonates The torture of a lusty …