Pleasure
“दोस्त” का इकलौता विकल्प ख़ुद “दोस्त” है। स्थिर और एकमात्र।
The only substitute for “friend” is “friend” itself. Irreplaceable, singular.
But we always, always know that when it’s the two of us, a label or a word isn’t needed or necessary. We both get each other.
How am I bringing myself into the erotic moment I am sharing with a lover?
We all are members of ‘The Side People’. No, we don’t sit around a table every Saturday to cry.
On calls your voice greets me, balm to the parched everything.
सबसे ख़ूबसूरत बात यह है कि समावेशी दोस्ती समाज में भी बदलाव लाती है। जब दोस्त एक-दूसरे को बिना भेदभाव अपनाते हैं, तो यह उदाहरण बनता है और धीरे-धीरे एक ऐसी संस्कृति का निर्माण होता है जहाँ विविधता को सम्मान और स्वीकार्यता मिलती है।
Today I told him that rain wasn’t from evaporation or condensation. I said clouds cried because they missed water so much.
My birthday is in May, a peak time of summer heat in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh. We knew that it was going to be hot, but did not have any idea of how bad it could get.
The glorious heights of self-actualisation to which some words beckon us, the promises lying within others, it’s all language.
Language is one of the most intimate things we share with one another, more than bodies, more than time.
Human beings are not brains in jars, but are fundamentally shaped by their perception of and interaction with the worlds around them, through their physical bodies and their sensory encounters.
It is not a word you expected in this poem,
Or in any poem at all.
… practicing a life rooted in love and a shared sense of oneness with the living world.
… that feels so personal to me as a teenage girl, because it is indeed, “so confusing sometimes to be a girl.”