Titli

Firki

That is why you should sketch!

After not sketching for months together, I tried getting back to it on a brand new notebook. It took me almost an hour between Nigella's Kitchen and Project Runway and major overuse of the eraser to make a sad little "fashion drawing". More motivation to sketch!!

Does that count?

Monsoon

Unending Rain

Grey, cold...

Separation

Old friends, mellow songs

Nostalgia...

Lost in the future

Uncomfortable goodbyes

Avoiding conversations

Guilt, love and hope

There will be sunshine tomorrow.

Hussaini's

This small bakery near Teen Darwaza is always full of people.. but one bite of fresh, aromatic, sugary biscuits and pastries just makes you forget the crowd around you. So famous is this bakery that the street on which it is, is called "biscuit gali".
Mmmm.... :-)

More Monsters :-)

So the monsters blew out of proportion and landed on my wall with some charcoal and crayons.
Illustrations by grishma & me

Monster Mania!

It started with a  pair of shoes that Grishma and I doodled on, and is slowly blowing out of proportion! More pictures soon :)

Why I have so many empty notebooks

Dear Diary,

What should I tell your empty pages?

Those creamy textured sheets, untouched… yet.

Should I wait for an inspiration…

To have beautiful flowers grow on you

Soft animals running around

Playing peek-a-boo

Tall buildings with firefly lights

Pretty people walking by

In fabulous clothes and high heels

Childhood memories of the games I played

Summer holidays and paper planes

Making rainbows with prisms

Or should I fill you up with

Word upon word of angst and resentment

Of fading dreams and emerging fears

Should I soil your pages with these dirty thoughts

Just so I could have a clean mind?

It is for this, dear diary,

You still sleep in the blanket of dust…

I’ll wake you with colours someday.

And... back to watercolours