Oh Mere Dil Ke Chain; Lyrics and Translation
Back to the Oldies 🙂 This is a famous Hindi film song from Mere Jeevan Saathi sung by Kishore Kumar. Thanks to my cousins for corrections 🙂
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Nadiye Nadiye Kadhal Nadiye: Lyrics and Translation
The movie Rhythm has themed songs on the various elements of nature. This one is on water. The lyrics draw a comparisons between the qualities of women and and of water.
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Epilogue
From January 2009
Where are you?
I’m here, waiting.
Full moon waned to half
Dew, you, like stars
Independent of the sun
Shining because you
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Buses
From October 2008
The Bus 1
I stand in the bus
The crowd sways behind me
My dupatta catches the flow
But oh! Now the flow chokes me.
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You Tear It Up
From Feb 2009
You tear it up
I pick up the pieces and reuse
You listen to cruel experiments without flinching
I feel sick and want to cry
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The Woman
She is the wind you cannot capture, the fire you cannot hold,
She has the strength of the earth but she flows
She is a woman.
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For Now
October 2008
This yellow evening,
Winds tell of rains to come.
A healthy, happy wind
That I haven’t felt for so long.
Dry mango leaves
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Insanity?
From May 2008
How intensely have you questioned your sanity? Today my brain perceived differently- I saw at angles I hadn’t seen before and heard at times I couldn’t explain.
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Written in the moonlight
From May 2008
For too long I have absorbed.
Here in this moonlight. I still see colour.
I breathe. I create.
There is no romantic breeze
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The Torment of the Free Radical
The wind screeches through the vents as the hail throws itself unrelentingly on my windows and unforgivingly on the skylights above. This big house is empty and the forceful cold roar of the storm echoes apocalyptically through the corridors.
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