Sometimes all you need is life itself

Looking at things with a pair of new eyes

Sometimes all you need is dying in the moment

Feeling the grass with wet feet and all

Just the other day we were on the sidewalk

Talking softly, leaving out the details

Of what you meant and what I did

And just enjoying the flow of words

Remembering the days when we sat of the footpath

And ate the delicious bowl of some yummy stuff

And the noise of the cars in the background

Aiming to hit us with a song any time

Sometimes all you need is leaving out

The minor details of why, how, when and where

And not waiting for the end as it crawls

Sheepishly as we ignore her blissfully

The Tyranny of Perfect

Leonard Cohen crooned, rather perfectly:Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat's how the light gets in These are the kinds of lines that set you free. Free from the compulsion of producing something...

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Brothers Sen Gogh is now a bestseller

A weekend spike of purchases has taken Brothers Sen Gogh in the bestseller list. Hopefully this lasts. Please grab your copy at the promotional price of INR 49/- or for USD 0.99, only till end of this week.  http://mybook.to/BrothersSenGogh #wip #writingcommunity...

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Brothers Sen Gogh – Book Trailer

Inspired by the brotherly love of Vincent and Theo Van Gogh, Brothers Sen Gogh ruminates about the pains of a sensitive soul, the inability of society to identify artistic talent and the heartbreaking tragedy of a flawed brotherly relationship. ...

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Announcing my new book – Brothers Sen Gogh

Inspired by the brotherly love of Vincent and Theo Van Gogh, Brothers Sen Gogh ruminates about the pains of a sensitive soul, the inability of society to identify artistic talent and the heartbreaking tragedy of a flawed brotherly relationship.  Soubhik Sengupta is an...

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Establishing A Daily Routine

One of the essential practices in the vein of Slow Compounding is to establish a daily routine. Daily routine is essentially a set of activities that you do every day and have specific time market out or a specific goal chalked out. Most successful creative...

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The perpetual amateur

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Kumar Mangalam Birla on 2020

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These Precious Days and Anand

https://harpers.org/archive/2021/01/these-precious-days-ann-patchett-psilocybin-tom-hanks-sooki-raphael/ These precious days is a heartbreaking long read by Ann Patchett about an unlikely friendship developed between her and Sooki Raphael, Tom Hank's assistant. It is...

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Book Review : Less – Andrew Seen Greer

Less, with all its stream of consciousness rambling, exquisite use of language, psychoanalytical text, is ultimately a novel about love. Love lost, love gained, love showered on someone, love made and love wasted. It traces the journey of Arthur Less, a gay author who...

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2 Comments

  1. Prakash Hegade

    That was beautiful. I could not get the context of why “Sheepishly”.

    Reply
    • Manik

      It is death who is observing the couple enjoying themselves, probably feeling ashamed of himself.

      Reply

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