MUSHROOMS
By
CHANDINI SANTOSH
Last week
I chugged past
My ancestral house
Perhaps I should clarify:
The place where my long ago house stood
A tall and hasty building
Rose at the site
A large mushroom
From the rains
I sit at these cold slabs of stone
Without knowing
That houses are built
On old desires
And their ruins
...................
The drawing you see above is done with oil pastels and my niece's glitter pens.
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9 comments:
My goodness, Chandini! You've been busy! I can't miss a week! You are a true inspiration, dear lady! :))
Indeed, Chandni, mushrooms that crumble at a breeze, maybe not literally
Suneetha
Chand....where have you been ??? Busy writing .....
Dear Petra
Busy as in Busybee. Polishing my novel for the very last time.
Dear Suneetha
Where can I get Bapsi sidhwa's books? Do give me the no. of the bookstore if you have it. And yes, what have you been doing, if I may ask?
Dear Cadbury
Yes. Writing away to glory. Also doing oil pastel sketches and ball pen portraits. The latest one is huge. It needs to be framed now. All this after the mammoth rains that we are having over here.
Chandni
I buy usually from the MOdern Boook Centre, Trivandrum's legendary book store, you can call them at 2331826, 2331816 , the TVM code os 0471
I also use this online bookstore based at Kochin,
Book Port, Ground floor, Kurian towers, Banerji road, , Ernakulam,
Kerala, India- 682 018
Email: bookportcochin@gmail.com Phone: 0091 484-2397129, 0091 9746339846
www.bookport.in
Oops, sorry I cut off after i wrote the book store stuff...
I have been writing and writing and writing and reading too...a novel half done, a satire serial novel on mallu marriages going onlline...and so on...
a bit adrift i think, i need more direction and complete the projects on hand, meanwhile I hang around on the web at favourite blogs , like yours...:)
Thanks Suneetha. I too used to buy books from Modern Books, TVM.
I am reading Nadeem Aslam's 'Maps for Lost Lovers' at the moment. It is very lyrical, but I do not like the sub continental style of language that he indulges in. It feels as though the book has not been edited well enough, though I do not know for sure. The subject and the treatment is exotic. But it does not satisfy me. The language jars!
That's wonderful news, Chandini! The very best!
in case you are looking for Bapsi Sidwa's Ice Candy Man the library at Alma Mater has a copy...the address is
Alma Mater
The center for English
3rd floor Pilakkandy Plaza
AVK nair road Thalassery
phone 04902344780 9446542563
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