Pawan Kumar

Eclipsed views

Empty roads, locked up in houses, not eating etc etc. I guess these kind of things can only happen in India. What we call our culture and beliefs and values basically stop us from most of the good things in life. I am so glad I am such a rebel.

I had fun trying to play around the eclipse time. I looked in every corner of my house to find some kind of a filter to view the sun but just couldn’t get hold of anything. I have a feeling my mom had hidden them for reasons we all know. Its very paapa paapa to see the eclipse apparently. So I saw most of it on TV and later me an my work mates got out to the streets and tried various shadow based viewings. It was nice, tried clicking some pics too.

Eclipse reminds me of 2 things, one is a poem that I wrote when I was in my 9th grade. A poem about the solar eclipse, and it is because of that I know so much about the eclipse stuff. The second being the shoot of my first fiction short film, we started shooting on the day of the eclipse and in fact got a stopblock capture of the eclipse too. And the movie never got completed, a believer would blame it on the eclipse but I proudly say that it was because of my lack of knowledge of film making. But thanks to this project I learnt so much that I’d never make those mistakes again ever in my life. You can see the infamous eclipse shot here in this video Beginnings and Endings

I am an emotion called Love

I am the memory that you’d never want to forget,

I am the wink that makes your frown a smile,

I am the tide that makes your life alive,

I am the halo your soul is searching for,

I am the voice your ears seek,

I am the poem you can never write,

I am me.

Who are you?

I am the present you will not remember,

I am the one you will feel like winking at,

I am the drowning boat being one with the tide,

I am the sin that keeps your soul away from searching,

I am the silence that surrounds your voice,

I am the poet who was never born,

You are someone I love,

Who am I?