First Instinct
- New Delhi Sahitya Akademi
- 102p.
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