M: There are, I’ve been informed, six basic emotions. Of these, one of the most commonly felt, even more than happiness is that of it's very opposite: sadness. If not most common, it definitely is one of the most easily expressed emotion. Of course, sorrow is not what we ideally desire. What person would want…

L: Today rightfully belongs to Love. It rules the alphabet of emotions, it rules everything. Though my physics training fights me, it is love that makes the world go round. But today is also Friday the thirteenth. So giving all due rights to the day, I should focus on the Dark side of Love. To an…

K is for Kicky I never believed that this word, which sounds like a name for an incredibly energetic girl is even a real word let alone a feeling. But it is. It means exactly as the word sounds, and the pictures that it conjures up. Pictures of breathtaking and charged events. I have, as…

J: Kamal struck a match and watched the flame skip into existence.  The house looked alien to her now. All the décor that she had so carefully picked up, walking through the folk art expos, the trade fairs. The papier mache Kathakali masks on the wall, the terracotta Bankura horses, the large Warli painting on…

I is for Insouciance This feels like a shade of April 1st.  A dollop of apathy with a splash of unconcern, and a topping of carelessness.  All this is baked in a soft pastry of nonchalance. It makes for a surprisingly interesting dish even though the feeling that insouciance awakens is that of an indifferent…

This is cliché, I know, but H is for Happiness Sometime back, I came across Abraham Lincoln’s quote: "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." And it got me thinking; Is happiness a state of mind or is it achieved through perseverance? Is it inherent to a person or…

G is for Goose-bumpy After yesterday’s post about Fury, I had started writing about another emotion with a story I desperately wanted to share about my friendly neighborhood grouch. Then this afternoon I came across this almost made up sounding word. So grouch has been saved for another day. This hyphenated (or not) word emphasizes…

F is for Furious Fury has its place in the workings of the world. Sometimes, in fact it is the main catalyst which gets things moving. The Trojan war. OK, bad example, but you know what I mean. Several times the adrenaline rush stemming from a deep feeling of fury has pushed me onto to…

E: It’s a fundamental truth. The wandering mind gathers no real thought. Through idyllic fog that ran amuck in his brain, he searched for proof of banal existentialism. None. Tedium wrung its way through each fiber of his muscle. Teenage is such a rickety old bridge. There seems to be no end on either side,…

D is for Delight The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. -- Isaac Asimov In the finding out. Does true delight lie in the journey rather than in the destination? This perhaps borders on philosophy but does delight lie in the process of reaching rather than being there? I…