Fractured

Each year, October 10 is ‘celebrated’ as World Mental Health Day. Mental health continues to remain one of the least understood and highly stigmatized topics. This is not an attempt at anything. This is what it is. Despite the agonizing pain,the knowledge that there’s nothing left to retrieve or build,that no remedy will come whatsoever,I…

A Repository of Ashes

As a child growing up at an altitude of over 1600 meters from the sea level, I was always well-acquainted with freezing cold and subzero temperatures. Winter evenings were long, and even though there were no smart phones and high speed internet to inform you about the exact hour of sunset, you could easily tell…