Goodbye

Every New Year we embark on an untold journey. With the commencement of the year, begin the string of resolutions. Call it quit smoking/drinking; lose weight, etc commitment to self-are innumerous. Yet once the “New Year” High tide dies in later days to come, how many of us would stay put to these rickety feelings?

You are slithering quicker than sand.
High and low of my intricate being, is been with you.
Stay with u, seems shorter as time to cherish near.
Lips might widen eyes may dampen.
No reasons to let go, thoughts would linger.
Yet, so long friend. (2006)

As Newness beckon, bygone is just a memory.

A New Year is dead. Long live the New Year!

Yet another year up or is it yet another year down? Was the year gone by good? Is the New Year going to be better? Every December 31 and January 1 comes as a package - of thoughts- Right from tiring questions like, “Will I buy a house, car, change job, marry, have kids, earn more,?” to even practical little worries like, “It is time I started writing 2007 instead of 2006 when I wrote the date,” “It is time I renewed my resolutions of eating less chocolates or drinking less, be it coffee or alcohol,(because not eating/drinking at all is equal to death, which leads to a sublimal level of not bothering about New Years and their package of resolutions).In a practical world where a mad rat race to achieve materialistic joys is the order of the day, I am sometimes scared I would start thinking like the mad mad mad world, “What’s so new about New Year?” It is also worthwhile to jump into Steve Wonder’s shoes and say, it does not require a New Year’s day to say “those three words.” But what’s so much about this New Year or any New Year for that matter?

Lots of money being pumped into the market giving economy a boost, lots of merriment happening, giving every personality a high and lots of expectations and hopes, giving everybody an emotional Thumbs up! Why does the whole world get impacted by a New Year? Why do leading journals come up with collectors’ items? You like it or not New Year is a milestone, it is a bookmark, it is a measure, a standard, a touchstone call it whatever you want. New Year gives you a feeling of freshness, a chance to forget the defeats of the past and revive hope. It helps you make a balance sheet of life, even if it is for one year, giving life some time to breathe.

Imagine a life without New Year. Where would you pause to realize what is happening with you? At what pace would you compare your life’s achievements and losses? Where would you look upto to set goals and dreams? Without New Year, the continuity of life even if it only has only good things, will get monotonous. Thank God we have New Year, for whatever reasons. A New Year is dead. Long live the New Year!

Deepa Ramachandran

Binaries of Life

Man decides to stay binary. Between the 0, 1, yes, no, right, and wrong. Yet oblivious, unsure and unwary to unravel the mysteries, which lie between the Binaries of life.

Why do we choose the "Binary"? Easy, quickie, Ah come on! Who does have the time, money, energy in the world today?

Thoughts do not dare anymore to delve deep, deeper than just yes and no. Mind would not probably budge an extra mile defying the right and wrong. Speech trained to address the close ended, just as the blinds on the horse's eye, vision would seek the zero and one and nothing beyond.

The brightness of truth fades into untruthful, yet not clearly a lie. Pallid of conviction is been darkened by fallacy of life. Uncanny vision of the colorless and darkness appears to be hue of gray.

Just take a plunge between the wildernesses of white and black to stumble on the void and Begin the "Quest to Gray".