Survival Of Love: My entry for the Get Published contest

Author : Avantika Kaushik      Blog : Twinnings of the Mind      Date : 1/1/2013 2:07:00 PM

'A literature student, who knows more about the corners of her dusty college library than the race to high paying careers, would probably never imagine her man, coming from an MNC and talking about his trade of corns in Europe. And no man, who knows it is smart to talk about gadgets, would date a girl bound to classics. But it does happen with the narrator, who meets Kabir for the very first time at her home. She finds a known sheen of dream hidden behind a pair of spectacles. Kabir (...)'

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May Worse Than One Can Imagine Fall On You

Author : Avantika Kaushik      Blog : Twinnings of the Mind      Date : 12/18/2012 6:51:00 PM

'How I wish something better had 'inspired' me to write, instead of this sheer provocation. We are still sleeping on the soft, cushioned, and flabby pillows, happily shutting our eyes against all the vicious acts happening around. We give and accept statements, laud and hoot eachother’s voices. And how nicely we do it. Elated by the performance, happy to have proved our brainpower . The charade is over in a day or two. And we are back to our tables. Brooding, how to churn out chunks (...)'

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Resale

Author : Avantika Kaushik      Blog : Twinnings of the Mind      Date : 7/18/2012 7:33:00 AM

'Death is building up in me.Reconstructing my too old existence.and there is a new sun for this new structure.Too strong for my withering bonesI will soon be compressed as sand Under its burning hand. '

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Andekha Tufaan

Author : Avantika Kaushik      Blog : Twinnings of the Mind      Date : 3/22/2012 8:39:00 AM

'Namkeen paani kuch idhar bi hai baandh ki peeche tufaan ki tarha thapede marta hua. baad kabi yaha bi aati hai ehsaso ka dum ghoti hui. aur beh jati hai imarate jo bani thi palko ki chaon mei, sapno ki narm ithose. ye paani samundar ki tarha vishal na sahi . kabi chkh kar dekho. ye kam kadwa bi nahi. baad ke bad sanate ki goonj khokhla ek aks chod jati hai, sab kuch cheen kar...'

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Two Hours Of Resurrection

Author : Avantika Kaushik      Blog : Twinnings of the Mind      Date : 11/15/2011 1:05:00 PM

'Go back to the diary..Go back to that dusty library...Sip coffee once more..Drink the writings once more..Chew on the ideasRomance the feeling of wordsGive me back my world, in two pennies of those two hours.I can’t wordGive me a word mask to resurrectAthirst for thoughtsFamished for food to brain.Long lost the nights, to unfinished stories of dreams.Long lost the sentences to the morsel of words.Lost plateful books to empty shelves of yearsLiving with minimum, I scribble sharp poem(...)'

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A Mountain Castle

Author : Avantika Kaushik      Blog : Twinnings of the Mind      Date : 10/29/2011 7:54:00 PM

'High up in the mountains,looking out over the rim.there the sky is clean blue.There the trees glass green. That’s the place I once lived in.There life is aglowaglow with a beam.Throughout the night, under my bedcovers,I would hearken the silence of nightand the sound of wind.the snow falling soft and white.Pure as my heart’s wishes.It would fall on and on, onthe lovely cones of tree leavesand the thick hill beneath the trees.And the hills above the sky.Today, the very same hill,With(...)'

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Is Everything That Straight?

Author : Avantika Kaushik      Blog : Twinnings of the Mind      Date : 10/25/2011 7:48:00 PM

'Can you think when was the last time, when you found solace with a companion of your sex? Bear that moment in your mind while vouching to read further. We often come across the terms like transgender, transgender, transman, transwoman, Polysexuality, omnisexuality or polysexuality, third gender people, two-spirit people, gender queer, transvestite et la! Do we actually understand what is it all guided by? In the boulevard of love stories, bush is not so green today. Men are no more(...)'

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Dreams twinkle in my eyes

Author : Avantika Kaushik      Blog : Twinnings of the Mind      Date : 10/14/2011 4:50:00 AM

'Dreams twinkle in my eyesBut a world breaking down on the hinge side..It is duskAnd the darkest and lightest colour of the day and night,Come better as shades…Time to come back home..Time to stop and return to the abode …Half asleep, I am just enough awake..Half dead, I am just half aliveBesotted in my mind, I am burned by my own dreams and desires Turned to ashes I am scalded under this little too vast sky…'

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37 lines

Author : Avantika Kaushik      Blog : Twinnings of the Mind      Date : 9/19/2011 4:47:00 PM

'I am withering in form.Can u see?Life mocking at me.How can I be?Dark must,Of a hollow pervasiveness.A devil deep in my dwelling.Scaring and scarring.A nightmare coming true in its casting.A ghost livening up in masses.A death tolling in the middle of dances.A life blowing in glances.Messed up are my chances.Spirit lost in the sand glasses.True blue in the grey of the matter,Not a spec of colour lasting.How many times do you sew a linen?Ravel the threads of my clothing.Deep injuries(...)'

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