Brijender

“I have taken myself out of the complexities, or maybe I have taken the complexities out of myself”
That was Marcus Aurelius, the grand old Roman, speaking through his “Meditations”. It is a sentiment I came across a long time back and which has come back to me after a long time....

A long, long time ago, someone told me to try my hand at poetry. But considerate as I am, I deigned it best not to make the frugal few who endure my prose suffer my attempts at poetry too!
Very recently though, I came across a few pieces of Javed Akhtar’s verse. They were poignantly exquisite, too wonderful to not share....

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Sidra.
It couldn’t be. Not here, not now, not any more....

“Sach hi kehti thi, jo bhi Ammi kehti thi
Jab mere bachpan ke din the, chaand pe pariyaan rehti thi”
When was the last time you laughed? Really opened up and let out a guffaw? Chortled till your insides hurt? And not at another joke, but at the sheer joy of being alive, of returning to the lost innocence of finding ecstasy in the simple things strewn...