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…