Thinking of Home.
Somewhere deep within, I feel a quiet longing. When I brace my ailing heart to say goodbye to a place I’ve come to love. When I’m filled with adrenalin by the uncertainty of where the road will take me...
View ArticleNostalgia
Music, smells, colors. Some things can just sweep us far far away, to the past, to the life that once was, to the dreams we dreamed. We didn’t realize it then, we don’t realize it even now, but we’re...
View ArticleTrading it off.
It’s a tradeoff, isn’t it? Home and ambition. You can choose to stay at home, with the food and the family and a simple life. Or you can choose to try it big, stay away from home and miss it loads....
View ArticleThe end of summer
A time comes in our ‘adult’ life when the smallest of things start to make the biggest difference. A moment as simple as sitting at your doorstep, watching the dancing rain-drops, the melody of their...
View ArticleAll you who sleep tonight
All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right And emptiness above – Know that you aren’t alone The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some...
View ArticleDecember is here
After a semester of randomness, fluctuating beliefs and occasional spontaneity, I am finally heading home to India for a (hopefully) predictable December. A winter of cold weather, chilly rose...
View ArticleThe Aasha Build: Gift hope, build a home
Slumdog Millionaire has put the slums of India on the world map, albiet in an artistic way. Despite the obvious, it’s still hard to believe that some people don’t have a concrete roof over their heads,...
View ArticleTake me home, to the place, I belong
When you’ve lived away from home for an extended period of time, you start to feel like a leaf, blown far away from its tree by the wind. Its roots though, which nourished and nurtured it, continue to...
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