Today, I hold my writing as sacred. The closest I have ever come to an out of body experience; to Aristotelian catharsis. This piece, hopefully, sums up what I (and most probably most other artists), feel about their work. Apodyopsis: noun: the act of mentally undressing someone. You notice when …
Read More »A Tale of Woe: A Satire on Love
Bent over backwards trying to tame your wildness and failing each time, spectacularly. Finding a way to slot myself into your life even as you exist so casually, allowing me to build myself around you. Without me, you will fall undone and yet, you’re somehow so ashamed of me. My …
Read More »Mother’s Kitchen: The Art of Cooking Selflessly
Ma hated cooking. Domestic spirits haunted her. She did it, alright. Paper thin dosas on which her words wouldn’t stay Peanut chutney for daddy. Coconut chutney for my sister My motto was “ketchup makes everything better.” Ma didn’t mind. Or we didn’t ask Ma hated cooking. The milk boiling …
Read More »The Scream of Nature: The Monologue of a Painting
Edward Munch was asked one day, “What made you try and paint ‘The scream’?” “A scarlet sunset, so intensely crimson, The sky itself was a frenzied dream.” The canvas waited, dried and cold, In pastels and in oils bedraped. Waited to answer why it really screamed, Why horror had its …
Read More »Communication through Music: The World of Visual Sound
Communication is the deliberate conveying of a message, non-verbally or verbally. Everyone communicates. Artists make an effort to communicate with society at large. Musicians are no different. Why music is universally appealing is perhaps because it does something we’re all guilty of doing at some point or the other… It …
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