The Drama Queen

I don’t boycott them for the sake of it. I don’t boycott them just because they are trending. I don’t boycott them because it is the ‘in-thing’.  Didn’t we all get emotional, similarly, for Nirbhaya, Pulwama, India losing in the Cricket World Cup Finals, some Sharmaji-ka-beta during results time, the elephant in Kerala, the #blacklivesmatter movement in the US, farmers’ suicides, cyclones’ and floods’ and droughts’ victims, the Greta Thunberg’s How Dare You, the Vegan Movement, and the list goes on! It is just a hashtag for us to stay mentally occupied for a few days. Till the next ‘trending today’ shows up!  How many petitions have you signed till now? How many have you signed before somebody was actually harmed? I do get affected by all of this. Don’t get me wrong. I am not a die-hard TikTok fan! But, getting random signatures from anybody and everybody....? These are just people like you and me, who will jump from one hot topic to another...! It is just too ...

Corona, Corona, arey par kaise Karona?? Lockdown ki kahaani, hum sabki zubaani...  I have penned down and recited a few lines which pretty much describes what we all are going through during this lockdown period. All in good fun! Hope you will enjoy it! Please follow the link to see the video. Thank you! Stay safe! -Namrata Rathi Sarda.

यह   साल   एक   दिन   ज़्यादा   ले   आया   है , अचानक   यूँ   ख़्यालों   का   सैलाब   ले   आया   है ! कोई   साज़िश   ही   है   शायद , जो   यह   बिन   माँगे   पलों   का   ख़ज़ाना   ले   आया   है ! सोच   रही   हूँ ...  आप   क्या   कीजिएगा ? सुबह   से   शाम   बस   यूँही   गवाँ   दीजिएगा ? माँ   हूँ  -  तो   एक   दिन   के   लिए .... रोक   लूँ   बचपन   अपने   बच्चों   का ? किलकारियाँ   बांध   लूँ   किसी   गठरी   में ? आँचल   ओढ़ा   दूँ   या   लोरी   सुना   दूँ ? या   हाथों   से   अपने   खाना   खिला   दूँ ? एक   बार   फिर   माथे   पर   हाथ   फेर   लूँ ? सुबह   से   शाम ..... बहन  ...

Here goes the Earth again, Embarking on its journey around the Sun. Here WE go, once more, trying to attain, Resolutions revolving around us-the only one! The calendar changes to 2020, Sounds a bit omen-ish. Will it end as quickly as its cricket counterpart be, Or, be as popular and feverish?! The climate has been changing everywhere, It has just been wrong all through the year; But the one thing that still appears fair and square, Is the holy gym membership renewal, loud and clear. New hopes for Mitron and Manyawars, New anti-Modi slogans by the rightist Pappus; The goons and junta have 'allianced' in a notorious Swayamwar, Burning public property making life go a-kaput! Businessmen have eloped, and taken all our money, ‘Gurus’ are in prisons, and taken all their ‘gyaan’; Social media is dipped in bitterly honey, Reality is messed up, full of darn! The one thing that hasn’t changed, Is the hope for a better tomorrow; Th...

We are going to complete 17 years of blissful togetherness, soon. Sounds long, right? To be honest, I feel like I was married only till my first munchkin came along. I got SO busy with my cupcake that I hardly had time for myself. Now when I look back, I feel that my dear husband would have felt totally neglected. Then, along came the other apple of my eye. I was busy trying to balance both the kiddos... I hardly had time to breathe. Oh, wait.... deep breathing was all that I would do...! So, going back to the number of years of my marriage... we have been married for only three years. The other 14 years we have been trying to survive. Politely. Grudgingly. Heart-warmingly. Sometimes just waiting for the days to end out of sheer exhaustion from the diaper changes and the school rush and the evening classes and the endless bedtime songs and the bath-time struggles and you-love-your-firstborn-more and sometimes.... well, just with the dark circles from the sleepless nights of...

Oh, a Corporate Woman dressed in all formal, Heels all spiked and a bag oh-so-flashy; Wonder what happened to her child’s science journal, Does she even care when the money minted is so splashy? Her efficiency skills appear almost paranormal, But the time she spends with her family is just trashy. Does she even know what it is to be a wife or a daughter-in-law, Ms. MNC does have many a flaw!   Oh, yeah! She’s JUST a stay-at-home Mom, With an army of support staff at her command; Tying her messy bun with aplomb, Filling in tirelessly for many a demand; She has not an iota of qualm, About her curry being spicy or bland. We wonder why she is wasting her education, Ms. Luxury certainly has a life of vacation. She leaves her kids at the day care, She helicopters her munchkins way too much; She has no time to spare, She has no job at home, as such. She is hardly ever seen wearing anything ethnic or decent, She is always draped in a sari; ...

It was our recent trips to Kashmir(last summer), Sikkim and a part of the northeast that made me so solemnly wonderstruck by the mighty Himalayas. They just stand there, as if teasing you to dare and get closer to them. I am in love with the awe-inspiring ranges... scared, aware of the dangers, know that they are tedious to fathom, but still in love. I had to express myself... I was so full of emotions. I couldn’t think of appropriate prose to do justice to its beauty. So, just tried to rhyme a bit, this time. Hope you will be able to envision it through my words.... Thank you! And it smiled.... It stood there, mighty and strong, Adorned by snow and trees and rocks. Like it played its own tune and song, And wouldn’t let anything go wrong. And.... it smiled. The mystic fog tried to cover it in its arm, Like a beautiful veil. It peeked through; meaning no harm, Showing off its eternal charm. Hence.... it smiled. The halo of the sun stood in command, ...