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[75] A Summary Of A Poetic Life.

September 12, 2017January 4, 2019by Rahul Gaur7 Comments

Sometimes you forget that reality breathes. You ask yourself if this spectacle in front of you is a painting or a dream? The scenery is beyond an impressionistic work of art. Like an echo of a time that you can almost touch, the reality fades into a daydream where sounds cease to exist and imagination [...]

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[30] What Have We Done To Each Other..

March 12, 2017by Rahul GaurLeave a Comment

Left alone screaming hold me, hold me These voices whisper secrets I ignore Crawling to whatever's little left of you, just be Just be what you were A mere night is a nightmare now As I lie in darkness now What is night? Vast serenity, mystery of infinite space? For me, it is the horror [...]

Fiction

[28] Gravity Is Working Against Me.

March 9, 2017March 9, 2017by Rahul Gaur1 Comment

"The Apollo program was a fraudulent NASA spaceflight endeavour which allegedly landed the first men on the moon." said the head of the Flat Earth Society who sat next to me on the frisbee pendulum ride. It was an unusual choice of an interview setting but he wanted to prove a point. While the others [...]

Fiction

[26] Dreams That Hit You.

March 4, 2017March 4, 2017by Rahul GaurLeave a Comment

The impact of my body hitting the door was so loud that I made a big roaring sound. I wouldn't have been able to hit the door this hard in my wakefulness because of my frail skeleton of a body. But my mind was more focussed on something else. The demon that hit me. I [...]

Reflections

[21] What is a Story?

February 19, 2017by Rahul Gaur4 Comments

Stories are dreaming with our eyes open. It's the art of convincing people of a certain idea but with a narrative, they can relate to. A writer puts his scrambled thoughts in a structure which may be linear, non-linear. The most vital stories of our ages are the one where the writers have "something to say". [...]

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[18] Diversity in Thought

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017by Rahul GaurLeave a Comment

I arrived at the gate of my new prison (read: college) and scoured the area for familiar faces (read: friendly faces). All I saw was an accumulation unto my conservative outlook of the world. People smoking, hurling abuses, holding hands and what not. It was the opposite of what I was taught to be. The [...]

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[16] The Incoherence of Thought

February 12, 2017March 7, 2017by Rahul GaurLeave a Comment

She writes an epic to me venting her ordeals Against me I stay shut, unaware of my own blankness She says words, words that surround me Like a legion I explode into a flurry of shakes aware of my own madness She wants me to be naked In front of a mirror I hide my [...]