Alka Dwivedi

I was walking fanatically and was not satisfied with my pace at all. I didn’t have time. Come on, increase your speed!
I saw a child sitting on the road, sulking and weeping at the same time. The road was deserted. No! it was not, I found out when I browsed the roads. Across the [...]

My (old) poem is a day late.
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Expectant faces,
Fearful faces,
Peeping out of windows.
Office hours had JUST begun
But how could life be over?
Suddenly, definitely, precisely
And clinically for everyone.
We were just balancing
The morning coffee in one hand,
And files in another?
A lightening struck,
To plunge everything
And everyone in darkness.
Would we melt together
With concrete and mortar?
Was it our destiny
To be one [...]

What the self styled Hero and Heroine of Bihar are doing? Nothing much!India’s National Anthem is being played on, and it might be their way of showing respect!
Thank you Sandeep for letting me publish this picture on my blog.

I was more or less a typical teenager, snorting at everything that belonged to my parent’s era. I took special delight in ridiculing “their” songs, terming them boring, dull and too slow. But with time, I grew up. When I encountered the real emotional and mental upheavals in life, I realize the raw beauty and [...]