Ajmer-A Dargah in October: Forever

"jeena teri gali mein
marna teri gali mein
marne ke baad hoga
charcha teri gali mein"

Lines from a Qawwali, a pair of fakirs used to sing every morning, during our stay at Ajmer,October,2011.

White- a blast of white

Pure, bright, frightening white

Goosebumps of light



You fear-

As you leave your shoes outside

whether you’ll taint this white?

Your skin a victim of light

White, bright, power light

Above, below, beside

White, piercing like night

Your very own night in white.



Then in the red heat-And the witness of blue-Begins the trial in white





::Insert colours::





Anxious colours



Happy colours



Married colours



Colours in love



Stable colours



Unstable colours



Dream colours



Hope colours



Aspiring colours



Scared colours



Grand colours



Sad colours





The dargah in white-

now a dargah of colours?



Colours are white

White is colour



All is white.

All is colour.

within/without





Of penance, of second chances

Of beauty and dances

In night



There is no night



In the dargah of light

In the dargah of white.