tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622651.post1389507366231132975..comments2023-11-03T19:04:59.843+05:30Comments on Bland Spice: first rainsBland Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18118881822892452579noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622651.post-63872810954590306512009-11-30T17:25:45.082+05:302009-11-30T17:25:45.082+05:30"how so many people write about the rains. An..."how so many people write about the rains. And altho' all of it describes essentially the same thing, it always feels different. "<br /><br />very true. the same idea popped in my head when i started writing this, making it all the more daunting. i started favouring descriptions over plots about five years ago and have since revelled how the same romance can be captured in so many different ways, and spike one like the very smell of the wet earth itself. every time. <br /><br />that's why writing and music, i feel, are man's greatest feats.Bland Spicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18118881822892452579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622651.post-341398015133293672009-11-30T16:34:52.232+05:302009-11-30T16:34:52.232+05:30"They rushed along the sloping courtyard, was..."They rushed along the sloping courtyard, washing away everything that came in their way; an eddy swirled and rippled at the corner where a granite slab lay an inch lower than the ridge dropping into the garden; the sound of them, on the tin roof shed across the garden, on the leaves, on the stone, on the flooded lawn and the drains in spate, on the sky-windows and the walls, dripping on buckets under leaking ceilings, the occasional rumble in the sky – relentless, unceasing, cathartic; filling and drowning every other sound, like the inside of a blowing conch shell."<br /><br />^^^<br /><br />Wow! That was like chasing an idea. I really like how so many people write about the rains. And altho' all of it describes essentially the same thing, it always feels different. :)Tangled up in blue...https://www.blogger.com/profile/09863311350462955038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622651.post-67234462172843871372009-11-26T16:28:26.638+05:302009-11-26T16:28:26.638+05:30@pankaj Excerpt?! Sounds too preseumptuous early. ...@pankaj Excerpt?! Sounds too preseumptuous early. Just an idea i'm working on. :)Bland Spicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18118881822892452579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622651.post-46563216920833634462009-11-24T11:25:05.784+05:302009-11-24T11:25:05.784+05:30whoa.
my second fav post.
after the one about ...whoa. <br /><br />my second fav post. <br /><br />after the one about the butterflies.Ramyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463894001297755306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622651.post-91655805702361496552009-11-24T03:58:47.780+05:302009-11-24T03:58:47.780+05:30is this an excerpt?is this an excerpt?Pankajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10202778401351451175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622651.post-61747003385129319652009-11-23T15:06:10.874+05:302009-11-23T15:06:10.874+05:30thanks, G. :)thanks, G. :)Bland Spicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18118881822892452579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622651.post-61180265999873577492009-11-23T14:18:27.501+05:302009-11-23T14:18:27.501+05:30Good stuff.Good stuff.gayatrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12004541504396997418noreply@blogger.com