CHERISH with HARISH

WORDS I wrote them randomly, the dictator called them 'Sense-less'. I wrote them in a rhyme. the dictator called it a 'Stupid song'. I kept writing them effortlessly, times changed, the dictator changed. The first part was called a STORY, and the second, a POEM. I realised that it was not the dictator's fault, just my doubts on myself! Dictators will come and go, but I should not stop writing. People will like it or not. I should not stop expressing. I should keep on 'PLAYING' with words, A lovely game. Isn't it?

It was a humid evening in Delhi. As I was working on my desk, I got a Whats-app message from a cousin, who does not message me often, but she does it more than any other cousin. She stays in Colorado with her husband, but had come to India for some work. She told me that they were laughing with her elder sister were talking about me and laughing out loud thinking of my 'STUPID JOKES'. Age-wise, I fall in between both of them and somehow, but our frequencies match as if we were the same age. Again, we don't meet often, but whenever we meet, we talk as if we had met yesterday. I smiled as I read the whats-App message, that there is someone in the world thinking about me. I asked the younger one (the Colorado resident), till when is she in India. She said the date and she said, "...if you are not busy, please come!". This was good enough for me to plan for Hyderabad and meet them. I had somehow finished my projects and I was on a break. It happened so fast tha...

I write I write street plays, I write stage-plays, I write poems, I write songs, I write stories, I write films, I write book (s), I just write. It is fun to write. No one (at least in India) knows that it can be a profession to be just a writer. I am enjoying being a writer and I am loving it. And the best part...I am trying to earn from my writings!

It was a tough decision, or may be I thought so it was! But now, when I look at it, we are so connected now that we should make sure that none of our 'CONNECTIONS' should become an addiction. Though I had left Facebook a couple of times earlier, but that was more like a kiddish abandonment. This time, I realised that I have so much of work around, do I really need to be so public? Probably not! I will have Kamaan's website soon, and a play coming up too. I am loving the process of 'Getting to know myself' more. I am not stopping poetry. I will be writing more more stuff here. May be it would be more frequent now. I see myself free now! Good wishes to Mr. Zuckerberg :)

"You might be a genius for some, and a fool for the rest. Just be thankful to your admirers, and grin for the fools!" - KHS, April'17

With two days to DIWALI, I felt a tinge of 'Delhi Winters' in the air, in the morning. Excited that it is coming...

K. Harish Singh: NOTHING LIKE IT