Wrath of Death : Road Accidents

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 5/25/2013 6:54:00 PM

'India is a great nation where I'm guessing human lives aren't as important as the 'cultures' or the 'everyday protests' against simple issues of women's clothing or a celebrity couple kissing or hugging onscreen. A life just isn't valued. A general sarcastic line of thought is that, given the population of this country, a loss in that count doesn't really matter. We read about it in the papers everyday, happening to someone, somewhere in the city/country. But the intensity strikes o(...)'

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At Sixes (and Sevens)

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 5/21/2013 1:42:00 PM

'Someone once told me that the most important thing about the command over a language or your prowess is about how much you can condense your text and not in the many pages that you manage to fill up. It has been tiring to sum up my life so far in merely six words for the Chennai Bloggers Club's 'Six-word memoir' happening among the bloggers here, but it's definitely worth it as there is some introspection needed there.Here go.Insouciant gossamer of infinite ice-cream castles.*B(...)'

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Turning Twenty-Something

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 5/13/2013 12:57:00 PM

'I am soon reaching the first quarter of my life. It sounded beautiful when I was fifteen. To be in the twenties. To be the woman I have never dreamed of becoming when the bob cut lived and dirty pants from the evening out relished the present. I never saw it coming. Never. Not this.   It's beautiful, to be able to say that you are now a woman in a little more of a true sense than from the words that ring in your ears when people say it around after you have your first peri(...)'

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Untitled

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 5/8/2013 1:55:00 PM

'Walk hand-in-hand with your fear and dump it in the nearest well.Jump after it and push it underwater.You might think you're the one drowning,but remember,fears never learn to resurface as will does.'

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Making love

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 4/19/2013 1:24:00 PM

'She makes love all the time,this girl I know.Wavy hair on the rough side.A clown adorning a crooked smilethat lights up really small eyes.A girl who has already fallen in love with wordsbefore, while and after she fell in love with a man.If the first that peeps from the sky is a worm,she'd write how beautiful it waswith its rings sparkling all through the night,inching its way across the infinite realm of God.If that little niece of hers puddles on her lap,she jumps up in antag(...)'

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The Airport Effect

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 4/15/2013 10:06:00 PM

'So, I enter through rotating glass doors to look unto a sweeping stretch of dotted spot lights in a high false ceiling,  white-marbled huge columns, steel barricades and the tiled flooring of the airport. I never understand what runs in my mind when I go to the airport. Technically speaking, it should be like going to the bus depot or the railway station. Why does it feel more enhanced here? All of them are sentimental at various levels of distances between dear ones and one th(...)'

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The Girl in the Mirror

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 3/25/2013 6:52:00 PM

'I stared at my gymnastics coach with the a big puppy dog face. It was yet another of those times when we clash head-on in silence. Well, at least it was the language of signs for me. He generally won.'Please Sir, just this once?' I pleaded with every ounce of yearning in me.Every single time.I always got the same answer.No.I had never know how it feels to brush my hair all the way till my shoulders or more almost until I reached my  seventh grade. I never did know how it feels (...)'

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Radio Love!

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 3/1/2013 5:47:00 AM

'When the days where much in the past filled with joy and innocence, when technology hasn't taken an advert turn forcing itself down our necks, but during a time when we were the masters of the same, there lived a radio in my home that made my whole family's day from morning till the night falls and gloats. This post is dedicated to that radio that braved everyday along with us, thorough the thick, tough and the truce times after many fights and eternal love.    When I(...)'

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And my client said : An architect's woes

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 2/8/2013 7:58:00 PM

'So you come to me; an architect and say,'I'd like you to design this dream house in my head.A large wooden door and a window at the bay,The flooring I want, in dark dark red.Now, let there be the stairs above into three roomsbasking in sunlight and skylightwhilst the closet be onto the left here for the mops and brooms.I almost did forget, the doctor did citefor some of those oak paneled wainscotingalong with bricks red,grey and brown.Please do take these down as you see the dr(...)'

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When I have a son

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 1/8/2013 8:59:00 AM

'  And when my little son walks in while I feed my infant,  I wouldn't shoo him away and draw up my clothes;  but hold him by my side and give him a kiss.  I'd tell him, 'Son, you drank my milk like this when you  were much younger.  These are breasts that fed you  and I am the woman who gave birth to you.  Stare at your sister's eyes and see the joy  in the suckling that fills that tiny little body  that you see everyday  and le(...)'

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The Heart Rout(e)

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 12/31/2012 9:36:00 AM

'There are always those paths in front of you, sometimes forked, sometimes parallel;some of them tiny at the beginning opening out into a thicket of sunshineand some that narrow down into walled fortresses. Every single of those places have a sliver of light, a flower that blooms to merry, fighting warriors abreast with swords awaiting to lash andmany a shores of the beaches where you can soak your mind. You get to choose but one of thosebeginnings so decepti(...)'

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The Liebster Blog Award and The Awesome Blogger Award.

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 12/18/2012 5:42:00 PM

'It's funny. I don't generally put up blog posts like this one. But my good blogger friend has asked me to, and it would be mean if I didn't. Anyway, really appreciate Kalyan for the award. I hope I can answer it as truthfully as possible.The Liebster Blog Award and The Awesome Blogger Award.Now that I’m tagged, here are the rules I need to follow:RULES:If you are tagged/nominated, you have to post 11 facts about yourself.Then you answer the 11 questions the tagger has give(...)'

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The Liebster Blog Award

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 12/18/2012 3:03:00 PM

'It's funny. I don't generally put up blog posts like this one. But my good blogger friend has asked me to, and it would be mean if I didn't. Anyway, really appreciate Kalyan for the award. I hope I can answer it as truthfully as possible.The Liebster Blog Award and The Awesome Blogger Award.Now that I’m tagged, here are the rules I need to follow:RULES:If you are tagged/nominated, you have to post 11 facts about yourself.Then you answer the 11 questions the tagge(...)'

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Wishlist to a thirty second's memory!

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 12/5/2012 4:19:00 PM

'When I was younger and even now, people told me, 'Wait till you see the real world'. I said I will. In images and sketches,my dream of the real life floated : designs of an exposed brick work house filled with framed pictures of my life, traveling toes, love, financial and personal success, a little studio and work that I love. It ran in my head that I'd earn all the cash I need to trot around the world and do all that I want to. To dote on designs by virtue of livelihood and live i(...)'

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Leave where again?

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 11/27/2012 3:31:00 PM

'Let me leave it here, I tell myself. Building blocks and scourging for jobs;pleasing people and being polite to the best of my being. While I love the sea I live in; something suffocates,and drowns. The little gasps of air above this blue trance give me little yellow sunshine spots of joy. Let’s leave it all and steal some money, perhaps. Roam through the streets of hidden hills and solitary forests in unity and love with the fresh air that I breatheand the other girl inside of me.L(...)'

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What next?

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 9/1/2012 6:25:00 PM

'What next, they ask me? What next, I ask myself a lot of times. I know just one answer to it, which does no justice to the question itself. 'I don't know.'What are you going to be in 5 years? In ten years? Fifteen. Fifty. I still tell them 'I don't know'.The vague outline of vision that education offers is so faint that sometimes I have to trace it and chase it around to find out where I'm off to. To meet whom? To earn? Or to learn? These are just only a very few of the questions th(...)'

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Envisioning Reality

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 7/13/2012 4:41:00 PM

'Itinerant roads roam their way through fogged sights of my beingcutting through the suspended invisibility of dark secrets and earthy light,tracing those numbed memories in the eons of my past- beautiful and seething;sprinkling his smiles on moist ground from my tears trite.His cherubic grin hops from one joyful stone to the nextas welcoming as the opening lips of a woman who loves her other soul,offering herself to the reason of existence towards a seed growing convex;cutting throu(...)'

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Lost grooves

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 6/6/2012 11:57:00 AM

'Block by block, I built my reveriesreaching the sky, one on top of the other. They weren’t stable and often jumped pieceslike monkeys in an antic play;to make me smile, to see me tickled by tiny joys in its unfitting grooves and sated levels of imagination,until one day another traveler in my life shook them with his stick.Really hard.His name was Reality he said;and he tore apart my dreamsbit by bit,as it all crashed taking me down with the million piecesthat I painstakingly and lo(...)'

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Speak up!

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 5/27/2012 9:28:00 AM

'Meaningful conversations are few, intellectual discussions are rare and a lovely debate treating the other as an equal happens once in a blue moon. But what happens very easily, like snapping one's fingers arises counterattacks in an argument owing to reasons silly, stupid or even on a higher plane of thought.. but the approach just brings down the whole level of importance and pertinence of the subject as the topic finds it's way down the way into deep blue seas while we just end u(...)'

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Spill

Author : Hemu      Blog : Street of Smiles      Date : 5/2/2012 12:45:00 PM

'To have to stare at distances far away through my heartas it shatters each time the details blow up touching the thin membraneof glass a thousand times brittle,I pick up my glasses and perch them on my nose,waiting to see those flowing images aheadand not having to pass through pain;with the next gust of wind, it shuts down.Senses.I hear myself say that this is the only way I can see the happeningsunless I pluck the bosom that lies within andthrow it out in the raging rains I hoped (...)'

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