Hi Acha.. (Dad in malayalam) It was not long ago, but much after you passed away, a day when I was very down, so low that I never felt I will ever lift myself up again I called home. I spoke to someone I see in a position as dear to you. I told him ‘I was feeling low’ and he said “When I was … Continue reading On Father’s Day – A Letter To My Dad who is no more
Writing a Poem for a daughter is not easy You can sing a lullaby, tell a story but a poem? That is tough Your Daughter is the poem Poetry gives meaning to your life even when you have abandoned your search for it Your Daughter is your poem Poems are timeless and a daughter grows up to be the same little girl Year after year … Continue reading A Daughter is a Poem – Poem#17 – National Poetry Month
You are born on the “International women’s day” and this day every year we celebrate the birthday of the coolest man. But as always I want you to remember a few things about the significance of the day you were born, Women have been the central figure of building our world and still continue so. Yet there are many parts of the world where there is a deep rooted inequality when … Continue reading International Women’s Day & Rahi’s 8th Birthday
So there is this one person who is so pissed off with me. I am assuming he is angry because of my posts, I would not want to guess his religious faction (but you can guess from the tweet), except that he is not a Muslim…. apparently he stays anonymous in twitter…. anyway the person is a Malayali which I know from one of his … Continue reading How to respond to your faceless and spineless critics
We have successfully pushed the year back. Well we did not really push it, it gave way as we lived through it. But it is nice to think that we had something to do about it. After all maybe we did, because many of us survived to see it while many did not. We live in a very different world where our survival is not always the … Continue reading My 2015 New Year Note
So before the new year starts I got my third Tattoo… ‘മർത്ത്യൻ’ which is a malayalam word and reads ‘Marthyan’. The literal meaning of ‘Marthyan’ is ‘Mortal’ and the antonym being ‘Amarthyan’ or ‘Immortal’. ‘Marthyan’ is also used in malayalam language to suggest ‘Human being’ Why മർത്ത്യൻ? First ‘മർത്ത്യൻ’ is my pen name when I write in malayalam, my mother tongue; Second I feel that it would be … Continue reading The significance of my new Tattoo (The Importance of being a Mortal)
A new year comes with new expectations, new responsibilities, new teachers, new friends… There will be glimpses of life from last year, there will even be opportunities from next year that will force itself into this one and above all there is a lot of new things to learn. And here is what I got to tell to both of you Rahi, You are a second grader now. … Continue reading To my kids on their first day of school in 2014
Today my son asked me “How do you make a bubble with a bubble gum?” I was thinking about something else and just said “I don’t know”. He looked at me and said in disbelief “What..? you are my dad and you say you don’t know?…. that is so mean” then he paused for a moment and said “And you are so big?” I looked at … Continue reading When Your Kid Asks a question…
There are some thoughts that won’t leave your mind once it takes birth, unless you do something about it… it kind of feeds into your life and irritates the hell out of you… you can try to sleep; you can try getting busy with work, you can drown yourself in your favorite brand of sweet/bitter poison, immerse in a book, or keep staring into the … Continue reading The Thought
Rahi… Last two years I had written a post when you turned 5 and when you turned 6 and today you are turning 7… Every time I write I don’t always know if you can fully comprehend what I want to say…. but I still write because some day you might read… and you will understand…. I also write just to remind you that you … Continue reading Rahi turns 7 today….
Vinod Narayan 