Dheeraj Kalgutkar

Because, why not! Photo by Manja Vitolic on Unsplash Far from here Where I hate you and you hate me There is a world where we love Not any other kind but The one where I wish to see you each morning To smell you before going to sleep Where I wish to be there when you Dream ghosts and have nightmares Where I can make your morning coffee And you can bring me my evening tea A world where I exist for you And you exist for me Where there is love and only love Take me there take me to where you are Wherever that is I don't belong here Where there is everything Everything but you And honestly nothing is enough when You are not around Slide in or let me drop by Hold me in your arms Let's welcome each other like The goodbyes we said last Let's walk back to the day We saw each other Make amends, hug little longer Argue less And kiss a little extra ...

Photo by Erwan Hesry on  Unsplash You try and try and try To forget that one person Get busy with work Start running, go gymming Learn that new thing, meet strangers Sleep with people your heart would not Do all things to take your mind away Away from all the memories of a past Of a life you thought you had left behind Moments you thought you had buried deep inside Everything you thought was all over But One day like a river storming through floodgates You open up Open up with old wounds That you long thought were healed and dried What did you do oh sweet child of summer? What did you do to me?

“Internet to me is all about Cats and Porn.” — Anonymous World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to Reddit recently for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) to celebrate a quarter century of the world wide web (www). In responding to the question, “What was one of the things you never thought the internet would be used for, but has actually become one of the main reasons people use the internet?” he replied, “Kittens”. So there it goes. You believe it or not. Cats are everywhere. There also is an island in Japan popularly called ‘cat island’ where cat population is huge compared to their human counterparts. Cats outnumber humans six to one on the island. There was one little kitten at my home too. But no more. The other day I saw her at late night folding herself beside a Deepavali Diya (oil lamps lit during the festival of Diwali/Deepavali) in a typical cat fashion. Here’s what happened. I tell you this story for I hold a guilt somewhere in a corner of my hear...