Author Archives: rekhashivam

Calling off her oblivious days of the past , Kamala always loved to go for yet another trek, with a little load of memories on her back. Tomorrow is April 14th,she sighed. Yet another Vishu without her Father. As she returned from the office, a day before, her mother had called her to remind herContinue reading “A Memoir”

Being pretty to look at and beautiful on her acts and thoughts, Priya felt she could have been way better than what she feels her to be right now. She is an excellent teacher, had good looks, a good dancer , a voracious reader and scratched too, pretty well. Twisting, turning and rolling herself onContinue reading “Hazily…”

Enough is spoken and written about the outbreak of the pandemic and the lessons of life it imparted to the entire human race. I wouldn’t be frittering away your time, if I attempt to bring out this truth, which I haven’t seen many doing… The season of summer bears seeds of happiness, pollinate it throughContinue reading “The Ultimate God”

O human, see through your eye, What needs to be seen,and sense, Crucial times are up and the country Needs you to be sensible and judicious. Ill-health and dashing you come, With a smiling face and a few medicines, I cure you with care and love, I surrender my happiness right before you, Don’t youContinue reading “Ode to the Champions”

Since a week, the sky was cloudy giving symptoms of a possible rain, even then quite humid and in breaks, the blazing Sun showed his victory over the hesitating clouds. It may rain soon, Priya murmured to herself. She had just got back from her work, lazily completing her chores that always waited only forContinue reading “The Smell of the First Rain”

On a burning afternoon, when I got home usually late for a Saturday, due to extras in the department, I saw something in a lightening speed sheltering under the car. After parking my two wheeler hurriedly, I went on inspecting to finally find a puppy bouncing towards me as if it has found its longContinue reading “Pencil, the Puppy”

Embarking upon my adventurous voyage, I met a tragic hero called Ulysses, He asked me:’ Why are you travelling the seas, like me? I had to , for Penelope and Telemachus, And for Troy…don’t get trapped in the land of Lotus Eaters, You will be blown off into the island of Cyclops, Don’t, if you’reContinue reading “The Anchor I Lost”

Reminiscing young, old days of my childhood and adolescence, today’s expedition with you by my side, is into my ancestral home where one would find vivacious edible fruit trees, aromatic herbs, sacred trees ,coconut plants of many varieties and what not…It was an extensive, vast expanse of land with an old ancestral house situated inContinue reading “Under The Mango Tree”

Lock down even affects my senses these days, I guess. Anxiety, depression, fear of failure, I don’t know why it recur. Not that I can’t go out, mingle with my students, talk to the friendly envious colleagues of mine, or inhale the air of the college which causes this state of mind or state ofContinue reading “Insomnia(Personal Diary-II)”

I kept brooding: you hollow mind, What are you waiting for? Love? Heard a beat mumble, Don’t you deserve? Care…you ever went through? Endearment, I know I had… Fondness…you’re matured, You’re a wife, the mother Of a young girl… Care for them,love them, Give…and like a Woman, Wait for the doors of heaven! I laughed,yetContinue reading “Mind”