Technical writer. Space enthusiast. Sci-fi writer.
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Early in the morning, as soon as I'm awake,I take a gulp of it, to give my sleep a break.The slurp with which you drink it,Sounds like a cuckoo's song,And the burn with which you drink it,Is unfit for any tongue.And when the tea,Pours into your body,You wish others could see,How refreshing it was to thee.
I would literally go nuts,\r\nfor every Carnatic music class,\r\nBecause I couldn't fathom,\r\nAbout whom it was.\r\n\r\nI thought that these folk songs,\r\nWere written by mythical beings,\r\nBut I thought of unicorns and centaurs,\r\nNot yakshas or gandharvas.\r\n\r\nThese were songs of devotions,\r\nLater did I learn, many to their Gods,\r\nBut that was what I learnt,\r\nIn that evening Carnati...
Every time I open,\r\nThat rectangle little screen,\r\nI am reminded,\r\nThat I live with art.\r\n\r\nA photographer had taken it,\r\nIn the early hours,\r\nAnd because I sleep late,\r\nI never see that hour.\r\n\r\nI have that piece of art,\r\nOn my mobile phone screen,\r\nIn the hope that it will,\r\nAwaken me from an early morning dream.Every day I wake up,\r\nWith the artists naughty touch,\r\...
Why I am a writer?\r\nNot a draw-er, nor a craftsman,\r\nI am nor a maker.\r\n\r\nI find the most joy of them all,\r\nWhen I wrote in my school book,\r\nStories for one and all,\r\n\r\nThe stories took me near and far,\r\nThey took me to the future and past,\r\nBut they let me spend my summer break.
The Nakshatras in Indian lore,\r\nDid the Moon very much adore,\r\nEach night he did spend,\r\nwith a Nakshatra in her abode.\r\n\r\nThe lore was spun by human mind,\r\nAnd you know we are not very kind. \r\nWe now know thanks to modern science,\r\nThe Moon's orbit went nowhere close.\r\n\r\nThe Nakshastras did not know,\r\nEach other or that we called them so,\r\nThey were far away in space and t...
[This is my entry for NaNoWriMo 2024 and No Break Novembers.] The Moon, 2098The surface of the Moon was desolate for as far as she could see. The only aberration was an observation deck that was a few meters above the surface of the moon. The deck was made of lunar regolith. It was an extension of a lunar base which lay underneath the surface. The deck was full of sensors. Meera was lying on her b...
Meera was sitting in her room and thinking about the last few days. She had reached the Moon illegally. She had also boarded one of the cargo vessels supplying to the Moon. She had come from Earth. She was given a drug that allowed her body to survive the journey on board a cargo vessel. There were three days that she did not know what happened to her. When she woke up, Gafur was sitting by her. “...
Chintu was thinking back to the time since landing on the Moon. He had to make fast decisions. Not everything worked well for him.The cargo ship that Kavya and Chintu had traveled in from Mars had landed at the US base. Kavya had handed him to Gafur and asked him to take care of Chintu. Gafur was wearing his lunasuit despite being inside the base. He grunted and nodded. Meera hugged Chintu and th...
Mars, 2098Kavya, Chintu’s mother, was looking out of the window. The red color stretched to the horizon. She had gotten used to the color by now. It was her last night on Mars. She saw a grid of robots mining for hematite, which gave Mars its red color. The ore was carried in concealed robotic vehicles to the factories to make steel. The steel would be used to make even more robots and the infrast...
Earth, 2098Mandakini was operating the handloom. She was using her hand. People on Earth had eschewed from getting daemons installed. She had woken up early. She had finished her morning work. She had prepared breakfast for her husband. She was operating the machine out of habit. She had forty years of experience. The sarees she designed were for her daughter and her extended family, and the exces...