The Analogy
Colors and hues Look at us all the time Through a shape they’ve adopted Wondering why We’ve fixed a place For them Colours too have imagination and Love to go where they imagine their future to be Or they’re needed most Or they help a story move on Or assist a poem say what it...
This blob of colour looks like Ganesha
A few strokes of colour Sometimes a few lines Are enough to create walls Of religion, politics, and hate And we become lovers of Blacks, Whites, Browns Or Yellows, Shallow, and Mixes We allot a direction And East doesn’t remain one where The sun rises But a club of concepts That divides… It is the...
Ours isn’t a colourless world
I have no idea about what it is like on the other planets in the far away galaxies but ours has lots of colour in it. Even the colour blind here can sense colours in a way that is quite different from the way others do it… so though jaded or faded, colours are definitely...
HOLI goes way beyond the legends linked to it
If legends make a festival interesting, it is a contemporary interpretation of festivities that makes it so hard to forget! Holi is one festival that goes way beyond the legends linked to it and has formed its own identity. I remember when I was in school I was mortally afraid of colours and so during...
The Manmohan Principle of colours
‘Colours are powerful,’ Specky said, ‘they transcend their boundaries and easily get accepted in new worlds.’ I said, ‘That’s a bit cryptic for me. Do you mean colours spread as water colour does and take the green of grass on to the brick red of bricks?’ ‘They can do that. But all that I’m...
