The Wordsmith

Contemplating content design and a lot of other things.

  • The Art of Living: Online Happiness Program

    It has been more a couple of months that I enrolled for and completed a four-day online happiness program. Through the program, I got introduced to the Sudarshan Kriya and a host of other Yogasana techniques and postures. In this short review, I share my experience. The Course and the Contents Given the COVID-19 situation,… Continue reading

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  • Tourists

    It was at the first light of lifeThat they took the baby step.And continued to walk alongEven as they slept. Still bright and breezyWere they at the wee hours.Trudged through whileStill learning their powers. Amidst the blossoming yellowBathed, fed the fellows!Then around the noonTheir lives began to bloom. Their gaily souls traced the trails.Still young… Continue reading

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  • The Visualization and the Flow of Thoughts

    Challenges are an inseparable part of life; not just with me, but with everybody. And one must commit to those everyday challenges with a dedication that equals their willing commitment toward their dreams. Such is our wish—as strange as it may be—to ward off all worries that we forget that it is their co-existence with,… Continue reading

  • Twenty Words Tuesday: Week 35 Prompt

    Thank you, Bulbul’s Bubble, for this week’s writing prompt. So, here’s my entry for #TwentyWordsTuesday, a 20-words-story-prompt. which for this week is Banner. Banner He read every word she skipped—her eyes, as if, held a banner. Respect begot respect. And love poured unconditionally. If you, too, would like to participate, just: Write a story in… Continue reading

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  • Inner Voice

    I said, “I listen to you every time Yet you sound anew on each occasion.” “Some day, I’d sit back and listen to you,” it said. Or, perhaps, it was my assumption. Ever since I’ve yearned for That participating audience. With whom I can discuss All problems and their solutions. Read the complete poem on… Continue reading

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  • How to Write

    A lot of writing is an outcome of introspection and self-analysis. We look at ourselves, sometimes as an outsider and oftentimes as an insider, with the expectation that we either see what the world sees in us or we see in the world that no one else sees in it. This is a lot of… Continue reading

  • Writing and Everything Else

    Someone asked me the other day, for instance, “what makes you write?” I replied, “the same thing that makes you breathe, go to bed, wake up again the next morning, and go to (or sit down to) work.” I said, “We all are machines running on some fuel. Writing is my fuel. You have your… Continue reading

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  • Just the Way of Life

    From when the life sprouted When coziness wrapped its fingers around yours And opened your vision to its ‘me-ness’, It is what it is. From when mistakes could be erased When errors didn’t scar us for ever And the time was full, It is what it is. From when ignorance was blissful When choices still… Continue reading

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  • First Sentence Down

    It is time. That time when I mustEither stand tall, perch by,Or, at the least, crawl towardWhat I might call a ‘find.’ The rest then is still thereLingering somewhere in my mindLaughing at me from those cozy cornersWhere meet my mind’s heart and heart’s mind. I mustn’t cry out loud,Shout, complaint, quiverAbuse, mewl, or be… Continue reading

  • That’s Who I Am

    Of all that I did that day, Were things rather in plenty. Breaking with the dawn, for once Had I had this idea, if any… Where my vigilant brain had caught this Wonderful signal through my mental antennae, And, the day had arrived where I could turn stories into pure honey. “Do not confine,” I’d… Continue reading

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