she noticed my eyes,in a room full of moving bodies a few years later,I sat still on the floorevery muscle a silent prayer; she watched from miles away and saw something worthy in my stillness; her eyesdidn’t see an inability to move,a fractured relationship with dance like mine did, instead she saw the ribbon inContinueContinue reading “for raga”
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ruh
ruh se wakif kara diya aapne… ab aadaton pe dil na thehra… saanson se wakif karaya hai aapne… ab jeene pe dil na thehra… kashmakash se wakif karaya aapne… ab doobne se darr nahi lagta… maujon se wakif karaya aapne… ab manzil par dil nahi thehra… aawaz se wakif karaya aapne.. ab sur taal parContinueContinue reading “ruh”
student and mentor
find a space, make it your own, curl in to curve into a reach all the way into a feeling, spiral into a perspective till movement brings you together even as you remain who you are as you are… trust in the mentor’s gaze
oasis
oasis, a blue sea in a land of dry and brown, a place of rest no starving hearts, no parched souls could this be where we dream? could this be where we unpack ourselves? settle in, for a night, or many more? just a bit longer, to really catch our breath, feel it dance underContinueContinue reading “oasis”
ragini
it starts at the beginning | un-mapping all she’s ever known | rediscovers the world | paints it with new possibilities | something changes | she is transformed | the same, but not really | her eyes are now different | you can see it |it’s all making sense again | a life of infinity |ContinueContinue reading “ragini”
Ragini Bhajanka 