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The seven sins

1.  LUST “My client has always filed sexual harassment complaints at her workplace against Mr. Lee. The HR gave several warnings too. Here is a copy of the complaints. My client here always tried to avoid conversations with Mr. Lee and it was not too difficult because they worked in different departments. But my client had to file a complaint when Mr. Lee groped her in the lift, the surveillance tape is also a piece of key evidence.” “I looked at her every day. I raped her with my eyes, I used to imagine what is behind her clothes. The more the clothes, the better I felt. She used to catch me staring at her sometimes, but my eyes would always find a way back on to her body. There was not an inch that I had left in my fantasy. But physically, I was not the one who raped her.” Mr. Lee confessed to being lustful but never confessed to the crime.   2. ENVY “She is getting married for real? Kiara who was the most commitment-phobic is getting married?” Samantha was furio...

Hiraeth

I left home, walked for a million miles away from it, But the memories stuck on to me till date.   How could I leave them behind?   Ever since I stepped out of that house, it is the only fresh reminiscence in my mind.   A 6-month-old me was carried into the home that I cannot now call mine.   Being carried in was easy, but walking out of the house permanently was onerous.   I am not homeless, but a place where I learned my firsts was my home.   It aches to describe it in the past tense because that is where my friends and I dreamt of a future.   Talking of firsts, the home was where I planted my first tree. It was a mango tree.   When I walked out of the house, it had grown to my knee.   I had felt pain for the first time in the house too, the pain that I still carry.   I came across a word today, Hiraeth .  The reason why I rode into the past.  There is no exact meaning to this Welsh word in Engli...