Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Feb 10, 2012, 7:27 am
A parrot scratches at my window pane little marks on the glass. I can see them especially when the sun rises the little scrape glints catching the light I move away thank god there are no cracks!
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Feb 8, 2012, 3:42 pm
Sometimes you wonder where the lines between reality and illusion blur. Most of life is contained in that blur zone. We need to do more research there!
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Feb 8, 2012, 2:22 am
The song sings to me my thoughts in verse And somewhere the cosmos I know, tells you my secrets...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Feb 6, 2012, 6:48 pm
Familiar with pain Happiness suddenly is a stranger Who informs me that the pages that burnt were all of melancholy and the ones that just got written are inked with promises How does one explain to one's own self that sometimes the emptiness has a visitor and silence and loneliness start a convers...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Feb 6, 2012, 4:47 am
What do I take from everyday the little notifications? the stolen glances or reflections on the monitor? what do I string together into a sparkling chain I could dangle around my writst? When I walk around  I know it would ring of all the laughter that we shared.
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Feb 5, 2012, 2:32 pm
(Title Credit: Somdutt Sarkar) It was like a silent syllable that suggested, merely by its presence. But somewhere a red giant burst, a supernova exploded, and a dying star ceased to exist. And something new was about to be born...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Feb 4, 2012, 4:28 am
It is a Saturday. Your work is going good. You ate idlies and vadais for breakfast in Aapnu Amdavad. You are listening to your chosen music. Some days you are happy to just be.
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Nov 11, 2011, 3:46 am
TalkPauseLaugh-A flirting rhythm. Eloquence in silenceIntimacy of wordsYou wish you couldHold on toAnd stop all the disbelief! Wake up child, It may just be happening!Don’t you sleep in dreams!When in truth, There is now a life Better than in dreamsFor once, After really long!
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Oct 24, 2011, 12:03 pm
There was a moleskin notebook I eyed in the Hyderabad airport the other day! Rs.1360. For film critics. Not that I am one, although I wish to be one someday! I am working towards it. Hopefully. You can never be sure of these things, can you?! Anyway, about the moleskin notebook. It looked delicious....
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Oct 12, 2011, 11:49 am
There are patterns. Predictable patterns. They bore me. Surprise startles me.  Isn't there a delectable in between that one can live in? 
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Sep 29, 2011, 11:28 pm
In a life that is increasingly becoming dependent on people, instead of the contrary; where time, money, efforts all ebb away in directions I don't seem to decide, and where I seem to have less control over anything that happens around me, little things that actually occur right, begin to add value....
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Sep 28, 2011, 11:16 am
Squirrels that produced sudden chills. You christened them. Then there were alien babies who resembled lighthouses. And other flusterations who aspired for them. We spun threads of connects with chai, cold caramel drinks, foamies with a bit of coffee, a rich cake-that-must-not-be-named so that they ...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Sep 11, 2011, 7:33 am
Like a familiar friend, worthlessness embraces me. *** There was music. High notes. Low notes. Jazz and heavy metal. Silences and sounds. And suddenly I stopped liking the music. So, I broke all the instruments. *** What if the clouds don't reach? What if they are having a lazy day and don't deliver...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Sep 6, 2011, 3:43 pm
(Dedicated to Aparna Rajagopalan)   Of all of Illundavoor’s tales, the tale of Srirama Iyer was the most famous. Mothers fed little ones with the story. It was what families recounted with a laugh, sitting-as if in a round table conference-just after the satisfaction of a Kalyana saapadu*, in ...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Sep 4, 2011, 2:55 am
Loneliness, sometimes, is your only friend. Always around. Always understanding. Never deserting.
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Sep 2, 2011, 4:50 am
For a while, I'll repeat these mechanical movements. ...click, close, click.  click, close, click. click, close, click... They give me peace. Nothing to think about. Nothing to fight for. No questions. No answers. Just existing. Flowing. Breathing. Realizing. To just be. Without any doubt and with...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Aug 30, 2011, 6:59 am
Long long ago, very long ago, when Raja was a little boy, he used to live in Ernakulam. He also lived in Trivandrum. Now he is so old, he does not remember where exactly this incident took place. Raja and his brother, along with their cousins, used to frequent, what we shall assume from now on as...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Aug 30, 2011, 5:00 am
In work we trust, and in cinema. And in dreams of travel we pin our hopes. 
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Aug 29, 2011, 1:01 pm
Long long ago, tablets came in bright colours, were dreaded and cured illnesses. Fake grinning nurses used to force feed them to you and you desperately downed a jug of water to remove the bitter after taste it left all the way down to your oesophageal tract! Times changed. New inventions were made...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Aug 27, 2011, 12:00 pm
I had always been fascinated by the medium of films. And when in my final year of under-graduation, I realized it is not brick and concrete I want to chase, but capture stories through moving images, it was truly a moment of realization. A calling. I signed up for this book mainly because it was abo...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Aug 11, 2011, 2:57 pm
It is one of those days you are glad you were alive! A gray storm of clouds gather darkness around the world. Wind beats agains a sheet of tarpaulin as if to warn mere humans against the wrath of Varuna. Rains, they shall pour and how! A lightening breaks out like the menacing fangs of a wild untame...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Aug 11, 2011, 9:23 am
Political dramas never interested me. In fact, I always felt they were a tad too serious and too boringly prosaic to kindle any amount of fellowship in me. In such a scenario, when Chanakya’s Chant fell into my arms, I had my own set of apprehensions. Something about the historical promise the boo...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Jul 26, 2011, 9:10 am
Did you say you pinned up hopes on a card on your window pane? With those fancy little stick on magnets that kept the paper firmly on the glass, holding it from both sides? You put it up for the world to see? Oh dear! Nothing... Erm... darn it! Well...I saw the Nasty Little Killjoy eyeing it! I saw ...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Jul 3, 2011, 10:41 am
'All and Nothing' by Raksha Bharadia begins with an interesting premise- almost as interesting a setting as Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe. Tina, caught in a turmoil in her life sends letters to a bunch of her friends- all caught in crucial and complex situations in their respective lives as well. She in...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Jun 22, 2011, 9:50 pm
There are certain times in life when the most important things never seem to go right! JUST NEVER. And it sets off a domino effect and tumbles down every other thing that is going right. So you end up with a parcel of bad moods. That is kind of my state now. Everything that is of tertiary, quarterna...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Jun 21, 2011, 11:12 pm
It is so infuriating that one cannot get a ticket when one wants from the Indian Railway. Before you can reach the reservation office, a queue that could stretch from one end of the country to another, is already inside in various levels of sleep and wakefulness. I suspect some spent the previous ni...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Jun 21, 2011, 9:44 am
Every passing day is like a lyric in a song. One line at a time. The song, on the whole makes sense. To this lyric, I add a footnote, everyday. Just that, this footnote happens to be a song. Long ago, a stroke of luck dropped a lovely silver ipod shuffle on my lap. In my usual silly romantic fas...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Jun 15, 2011, 1:50 pm
In the flattened top, she saw the bald bony forehead. That little suzhi (loop) was the socket for the eye. The empty complimentary space invisibly completing itself to form the other eye place. The curved bottom looked like the toothless lower jaw of a grinning face. She finished the upper jawline w...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Jun 12, 2011, 12:01 pm
The auto slowly crawls by the bus stop. Enticing. Slowly a metronome of its engines adds a beat. My legs twitch. The taillights wink at me. A ravishing red lights up the stagnant streak of water, still fresh from the evening's downpour. The beats turn into a hum. The tyres screech an operatic melody...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Jun 10, 2011, 11:27 am
dedicated to my blue-eyed baby! ***** Little crumpled post-its hidden under sleeves make-shift melodies paused and played drifting like flute tones in the wind a rare earth bound twiglet rooting itself eyes, nay, searchlights reading chapters in the clouds wrapping texts of thought beneath the sk...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Jun 9, 2011, 8:46 am
“…Time goes by, people lie everything goes too fast. Time went by, and then we died, and everything went too fast.” Julie Delpy buzzed on in the background. She closed her music player and walked out to the balcony. The clouds were painted gray. The kind of gray that hid rains i...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - May 15, 2011, 11:30 pm
I lost my clarity the last time round. It ran between the pages of my life while I ran behind it, panting, in a wild goose chase. While I whizzed past little shops selling memories, its shopkeepers called out to me to re-buy them and claim them. And somewhere in between, fascinated by a blue bottle ...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - May 15, 2011, 12:08 pm
Two tracks raced to my left, fiercely competing with one another, sunlight picking little metal points to glimmer their speeds up, vying for my attention. And suddenly unannounced, they crossed paths, merged into one in a stunt, and continued sprinting, throwing a flirty metallic grin at me, who was...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - May 14, 2011, 3:52 am
(Glossary below the story for those of you who are not familar with Tamil) (Dedicated to that temple pond) “One Two Three” She jumped down step after step, her two ponytails bouncing along with her. She then proceeded to jump up on to them. “On...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - May 13, 2011, 12:55 pm
there was a family of children girls. one boy. they all grew up. frocks turned to sarees. and one lone shorts was slowly lengthening into pants. one saree turned bridal puffed up gave out a baby i was born i went back to that village to see if i could find those discarded frocks and that faded short...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - May 9, 2011, 2:14 pm
They were all of a faded brown colour, with creased ears, one eye at the middle of the forehead, a stick like nose and a perfectly round mouth of pink of point three millimeter diameter. They had transparent white wings with silver veins running through them like a leaf. And they all were exactly on...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - May 3, 2011, 2:59 am
They had become like to prides of lions! Just that they painted, instead of Urinating to mark their territory! There were blows exchanged at rare times. Ooruga, thankfully had escaped those. They all knew he was a simpleton. And they knew he was automatically following what he was being asked ...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Apr 30, 2011, 5:38 am
‘PRANKS FOR SALE’- the board outside the shop in Creek street read. Old Mrs.Banham dusted the shop windows, trying to poof away the cobwebs that miraculously sprung up every morning. It was probably from the ancient street where a million spiders lived in peaceful unity. ...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Apr 28, 2011, 3:24 pm
read http://thedreamydryad.blogspot.com/2011/04/mamis-memories-illundavoor-tale-1.html and now... Nasreen Gopal nibbled at the edge of her pen with a thoughtful expression on her face and eyes twinkling with a sort of un-placeable excitement. She was, in what she called, a ‘writer’s itch’, wh...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Apr 28, 2011, 2:56 pm
Ramu mama’s snores sounded through the common window separating 35 and 36, Ramar Koil Street, and could be heard from where Nasreen Gopal sat next door, cross-legged. With nothing better to do at that time in the village of Illundavoor, and no one to talk to (as Mr.Gopal had left to Chennai ...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Apr 28, 2011, 8:04 am
Some stories never end. Like little plotting phoenixes, they prepare their own rebirths! A never ending comma. These are the kind of stories that sky-rocketed themselves into outerspace at their very opening paragraphs. And then the cosmos had so many things to discover, forget and refind. It is sai...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Apr 25, 2011, 2:16 pm
In footsteps soft and nimble you slipped away from my sleepy hands I am no market companion for you to drag me along window shopping across life. Blurred, the shops pass me by! I want to swim in your private pool soak in the cool waters of present buoying up on my dolphin float with sunglasses to ke...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Apr 23, 2011, 1:07 am
And a chapter comes to an end. The road forks to lead me back home. Two years of a dream lived. Memories that refuse to get categorized, jump into suitcases, get themselves a ticket and travel with me back. Memories that jerk at my hand and tell me- "Stay back, you moron. We were all born here. We w...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Apr 7, 2011, 4:01 pm
Indira. Aravind Swamy. Thoda thoda malarnthathenna. What is it about the film that makes me so happy-sad?! Eternal love, I say! "Mary Anne Julie Fernandes. Dussu Bussu" :D Aravind Swamy as Thyagu is perfection defined to a 'T'! :D "English Vala vala" back at you Thyagu! *sigh* *dreams away* *******...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Apr 3, 2011, 10:17 am
It was one of those days. Long hours of work. Sitting in front of a computer. She was typing away on the keyboard.  It annoyed her that it had dirty marks on it. All the vowels and a few consonants. The O had a small patch to its top left corner. The F was barely visible. Aah, all the swearing secr...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Apr 2, 2011, 3:52 pm
Rajinikanth was in the stadium. Hence, India won! And... I missed you Dravid. Ohsobadly! CONGRATS Team INDIA and Special congratulations Sachin! You deserved this earlier! :) And somehow, I cannot seem to forget the thrill of winning the T20 WC we won four years back.. That catch by Sreeshanth of M...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Mar 31, 2011, 7:52 am
Maybe the palmist was right. The time is not yet right. Things won't happen. Plans won't take off. But it'll be better than last year. Definitely better, he said.  It is.  *** There are certain times I want to see if I can stretch. Make my hand extend to reach the treetop. There is a small little ...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Mar 27, 2011, 6:01 am
“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.”- Eudora Welty
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Mar 22, 2011, 5:04 am
and in slumber shapes appear little golden sheep and tortoises of bread potatoes crackle over the stove jackets getting roasted to russets little soft hands lull you back to the whitehead of softness happiness like wine turns the senses to sleep mode barking dogs outside my window have their scream ...
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Sandhya R. posted an article on Dreaming on... - Mar 19, 2011, 5:31 pm
I have sprouted light wings in the wee hours of the morning the wake biding sleep to wait in the happiness of being There is no particular reason. And yet again there are a series of little beautiful things since the new year. :) Where do I begin? Happiness is so difficult to put to words! :)
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