First Instinct

Contents
Part 1: The Man you could Fall in Love with
1. Always the first
2. The man you could fall in love with I
3. The man you could fall in love with II
4. The man you could fall in love with
5. The man you could fall in love with IV
6. The man you could fall in love with V
7. Meeting the man you only knew as the man you could fall in love with
8. Jump-cut
9. Camera obscura
Part II: The blue landscape
10. On the way to Leh
11. Tanglang La
12. Alchi i
13. Alchi i
14. Alchi in
15. Alchi iv
16. Thikse
17. Khardung La
18. Shades of aqua
Part III: Against forgetting
19. Coldest of all colours
20. A thousand times
21. Against forgetting
22. For a beloved gone to war
23. To write your name
24. Pulse on the wrist
25. With lightning you went from me
Part IV: Shuffling for luck
26. Shuffling for luck
27. Mobile phones
28. Who waits past these arrives
29. To let go
30. Everyday...
31. Bridges
32. You are right about silence and time
33. Broken
Part IV: Retrieving silence
34. Persistence of memory
35. On coming across your photograph I
36. On coming across your photograph II 37. On coming across your photograph III
38. Sunday in your city
39. No train to catch
40. To be on time
41. The third eye
42. But poetry
43. 24 carat
44. Swirling on a single toe
45. No pure event
Part Vi Things Happening Now
46. Me Yash Chopra and Mr. Shahrokh Khan
47. Song of the night
48. Things happening now
49. Early morning Yoga
50. To stay with the wait
51. For a friend who can't sleep for fear of lizards falling
52. Insects
53. Through the looking glass
54. Nanak
55. Into that corner
56. Thus I take leave
Part VI: Always Away From Here
57. Unearthing a city
58. One night under Orion
59. The Thirdest World
60. Samarkand blue
61. Kukarahali lake
62. Badami
63. Vaisali I
64. Vailsali II
65. Patliputra I
66. Patliputra II
67. From city to city