Viva Magenta!

Colour of the year! It’s this all new viva Magenta …bold, bright, beautiful and visibly fearless. One must ‘Magenta up’ to stand out. Viva Magenta is a must have colour in your wardrobe this year – say the fashion gurus. Its bold and brave like 2023… Reading this out loud from the newspaper, I looked […]

New Year

What can be said in New Year rhymes,That’s not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old years go,We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we […]

Ta-da! Goblin it is…

Why do these Oxford guys announce the word of the year so late?We subalterns are always left in the lurch. Why can’t they do it like the Chinese ? Declare “the year of …” right in January, n you have 11 more months left to be a pig, mice or rabit! Anyway, since I just […]

Hard boiled and deep fried religion

That’s what is on the menu these days. Everyone out to prove their own as the world’s best, oldest, most scientific, historically secular, closer to God, the religion of God etc. My God and Your God may or may not be the same but coincidentally, Heaven and Hell appear to be in the same place, […]

A Piece of Cake

Wonderful construct! The creamy, spongy, sweet and velvety heaven in every spoonful/bite, full of luscious delight! I am of course talking about the gooey ones with the right oomph 😁 The beautiful stuff needs to be worshipped! What a small little geometric pack of sensual pleasure! Beautiful to look at and every bite a treat […]

At Camp Splendour…

…glimpses of my campsite and it’s verdant surroundings in the Annamalai Hills…yes, I took a break from the usual and what a break it was…

Deepawali is here…

So much has changed since I wrote https://sushmitasahay.com/2020/11/13/happy-diwali/ two years ago. Yet,amidst all that scathes the world, festivals arrive to remind us of the passage of time, the value of life and the real ways of purposeful living. Deepawali is here. A beautiful festival of lights symbolising gratitude. Its a day of thanksgiving : Indian […]

Villains in India

😜Here I am talking only silver screen… Why villains today? Well, our festival of Epic proportions, Dusshera/ Vijayadashami/ Durga Puja just got over. Several villains were slain then in the prehistoric times. And this mega festival celebrates all of them and some more… So, I am back with my musings on what is currently raising […]

He is right…

“What does not kill me makes me stronger” -Friedrich Nietzsche (German: Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker) is part of aphorism number 8 from the “Maxims and Arrows” section of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (1888). This maxim sums up my zeal for moving on…in a big way! Afterall, what makes us? What […]

The Queen and us

We grew up learning that the Pussy Cat went to London to visit the queen. Our subservient Indian psyche always forgave her- the harmless royalty which lived in a palace, visited the commonwealth nations on ceremonies and was so enmeshed so much in her own internal issues to mind the world! Just seven decades ago, […]