If you are walking past shiny glass front panels on huge buildings, perfectly manicured lawns, well laid platforms beside equally well laid roads, and...
The word slept on its way
from a heart to another.
when it woke up,
it was amidst thousand other sleeping words.
panicked, lost, helpless,
the word went back...
Nature has opened its gargantuan mouth once again,
Greedily devouring massive man-made embellishments –
Skyscrapers, ships, houses, aircrafts, buses, trains,
Even the so-called ‘earthquake-resistant’ nuclear plants…
Violent tremors...
I should have asked her months ago. But I have been preoccupied with my family’s concerns. How will you protect your wife in that unknown place? What will you do if someone harms her? You have no experience in travel. You don’t even know Hindi. How will you get things done? Why can’t you go someplace nearby, like Munnar? But I had promised Agneta, and I couldn’t break it.
