Cavewoman

I live in the cave under a mountain of you. I scribble, I scribble On the walls made out of you, Sometimes a word, sometimes a sentence But I’m never…

Why can’t we love life?

This life is quite fragile. And the worst part is we do not understand the inevitability and the truth of this sentence, unless something happens – a jolt that wakes…

Excerpts of Mahmoud Darwish: The Legacy

Mahmoud Darwish, the name that has resurfaced in the minds of people since the ongoing Israel-Palestine situation, was a poet and a cultural icon who was born in 1941 in…

Nizar Qabbani and the Delicacy of Pain

“The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it.” This quote by Nizar Qabbani struck something very deep inside – not just the immediate picture…

Joseph Lorusso painting
What Would You Do?

If I hold you today, Your hand in the bright streets of this city, Would you hold me back tighter? Or would I watch your eyes shifting their gaze, protecting…