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April 27, 2026
✨“Sometimes it is the darkness that I miss the most.”✨
That evening began at the Vizag Tirupati Balaji Temple. The sun was setting as I sat on the steps of the temple after darshan, having a mouthful of prasad. Still in formals, with a tote bag, hands folded, head bowed—heart oddly steady. I meditated for a while next to the stambh. The ambient sounds of winds blowing and the chanting of “Om Namo Venkatesaya” playing on loop—blissful and soul-stirring…I carried a quiet gratitude back into my chest. The 59th Indian Orthodontic Conference, Vizag, concluded that afternoon—successfully, smoothly. My lecture on leading a comprehensive cleft team as an orthodontist was well appreciated and applauded by one and all. Conversations wrapped up, smiles exchanged, hands shaken. By evening, despite feeling accomplished and appreciated, I wasn’t ecstatic, nor jittery. Just calm. Deeply, peacefully quaint. The kind of happiness that doesn’t shout—only rests. I didn’t even know, until I reached Vizag for the conference, that there was a Tirupati Balaji Temple by the same TTD trust of Tirumala in Vizag—it was inaugurated in 2022, according to the internet. And from the moment I heard of it, I was longing for HIM… to get darshan of Venkateshwara. I decided to take the manuscript of Phir […]
April 27, 2026
Shaam-e-Baazgasht Kolkata ✨22nd November 2025 — A Ropewalk
“While Mumbai was about leaving things behind…Kolkata was about embracing the new…” There has always been a cascade of emotions associated with Shaam-e-Baazgasht…A journey back and forth—into healing & out of it, back into the glorification of wounds — or as my therapist would call them, “battle scars”? A tight-rope act between balance and fall… The day before Shaam-e-Baazgasht Kolkata edition, my therapist wanted me to question:Is my gracious muscling-through of heartbreak the very battle that carved these poems into scars? And now, every time the applause lands, am I locking myself into an obligation to walk into the fire again — to relive the same ache each time Shaam-e-Baazgasht returns? Shaam-e-Baazgasht Mumbai (10th October 2025) was a major step in the healing arc.Couple of days after, I left the copy of Baazgasht kept for ‘N’ at the landmark where I last had met him — a symbolic act of returning my verses back to the place from where they once originated…A line from Sanjay Bhansali’s Devdas floats into my memory —“Pichle janam mein yahan se koi mitti le gaya hoga… so lautane aaya hai bechara!” But Kolkata… Kolkata needed more effort.Mumbai had drained the catharsis; this time, I found […]
April 20, 2026
✨ What Is Closure? ✨
(Built from the heart of Shaam-e-Baazgasht — Mumbai Edition and layered with personal reflections) I didn’t have an answer that night…. I still remember that evening at Shaam-e-Baazgasht, Mumbai edition — the music soft, the audience quieter than usual, and a dear old friend from the audience asking — “Krish, what is closure according to you?” The room paused, as if everyone had their own unfinished story echoing inside them. I paused too, smiled, and said, “Interestingly, I don’t have an answer to this right away… but we can talk through it.” And that’s exactly what we did. The conversation that followed will find its full place in “The Nishant Conundrum”, whenever it’s ready. But today, as I read the transcript of that night and write this, I’ve learned that closure is not a single moment. It’s a journey — often long, uneven, and rarely given by another person. Closure isn’t one door slamming shut; it’s the slow turning of many handles — one memory, one moment, one emotion at a time. It doesn’t arrive one fine morning over coffee, or appear at a temple, a beach, or in someone’s message. It comes from within — quietly, deliberately, often painfully. […]
April 20, 2026
Unrequited Feelings – How to deal with them!
There’s a quiet ache that doesn’t make noise, sometimes it may take over like a storm but sometimes it just burns as soft embers.  It is not the heartbreak that screams, rather it is the steady gnawing knowledge that what you feel will not be returned in the same way. Unrequited feelings are among life’s most humbling teachers. They show you that love, in its purest form, cannot be demanded — only experienced. You can’t control who you love, but you can learn how to act on those feelings of love. Emotions rise on their own, but what you do with them — that part is yours.You can choose to act out of impulse or with awareness. And awareness is where healing begins! Love that isn’t returned doesn’t make you foolish. It just makes you human. As Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says, “In true love, there is no room for heartbreak — heartbreak is just broken expectations.”  The pain isn’t born of love itself; it’s born of wanting something back. At some point, you have to make friends with those unrequited feelings. Let them sit beside you, quietly, like an old companion. Stop fighting them — they’re only trying […]
November 20, 2025
The Expression of Love
(Built from the heart of Baakhabri-e-Baazgasht — Mumbai Edition and layered with personal reflections) We often measure love by its object — by how magnetic, beautiful, or unattainable the beloved seems. But over time, I’ve realised: the expression of love and its intensity are not reflections of how extraordinary the beloved is. They are reflections of how beautiful, awake, and loving the lover is. Love doesn’t become sacred because the other person is perfect. It becomes sacred because something divine within you stirs in their presence — a remembrance of your own capacity to love! As Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says: “We are all made up of a substance called love.” It’s not about the worthiness of the one you love — it’s about the abundance of love that already lives within you. At the Mindfulness and poetry session, Baakhabri-e-Baazgasht, which was hosted in the  Garima Greh, Goregaon in association with Tweet foundation and Kartavya foundation on 11th October 2025, I found myself saying: “Aapke andar ki jo sundarta hai, wo aapke prem ke madhyam se baahar aati hai…”“Aap agar kisi se prem karte ho, wo is liye nahi ki wo insaan acha hai ya kharab hai.Aapka pehchaan hi […]