Category: Places

face

FACES OF FORTUNE

For a long time, the colossal icon inspired me. When I summoned in my mind, the image would evoke a mystical wonder. Though I have beaten sixty, I had never visited the shrine once....

dreams

LIVE THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS

“Why are you holed up at home all the time?” my friend asked me with a derisive smile. I knew he tires himself with all unimportant tasks, neglects health and family issues. He keeps...

shadows

SHADOWS AND PERSPECTIVES

I get invited to join in adventure trips to far-off places, exotic locations but for want of time and my delicate health issues often prevent me from not so enthusiastically jump in to accept...

SAND

SCRIBBLES IN THE SAND

I never saw so many enthusiasts crowding themselves, seen longing to relish the open airs where I assumed are there to jog in healthful surrounds, as the Covid scare has lost its oppressive severity....

CITY

CARELESS SUBURBS

Forty-five days is indeed too long a period for an impulsive photographer to stay indoors resisting the prickling fingers to press the click button? I eyed the whole bulge of the camera kit huddled...

lights

TRAIL OF LIGHTS

If there is one place where people in this Covid times, I recently found, who were deliriously negligent, unmindful of clear and unconditional danger heaving as close as the person scurrying behind them, is...

smiles

WHEN THE NIGHT SMILES

I see the pandemic raging, and double locking its grip, launched another wave of pestilence, seem much scarier than it was in its earlier devastating onslaught. It’s more ferocious, people seem like nowhere to...

happy

HAPPY YELLOWS

It was Covid triggered desolation swept around my school compound, but recent heavy rainfall, the warm wintry sun and winds heartened the green foliage to bright bloom with giggling, thankful airs. I imagined they...

joy

SHRIEKS OF JOY

There is nothing to beat the euphoria and the flush of adventure we enjoy the moment we hike close to the radiance of nature and the soul and terrain it claims for us. Whenever...

mountains

MOUNTAINS AND BEAMING BRATS

The hillock stands a few paces away from the busy national highway, and it takes less than ten minutes to climb to the top. There I find a Christian shrine, the Cross of Jesus...