Shantam Sahai

LATEST ARTICLES ( 39 )

• No Words for Blood Moon

  (Photograph by Shantam Sahai) From a railing where tear drops used to vaporize, I find myself under a sky full of stars. My emptiness (maybe) is a disguise of... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Starved Soul.

  it was like a pig in trash wearing ashes of a cigarette with the smell of urine; insects eating the ash because there’s no skin. it was starvation till bones an... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Drugged

  (Illustration by Abhay Tiwari) Every vacant corner and cavity of my heart where you seeped in permeated and rendered whole. I messed up and as the holes crept... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Devi

  (Illustration by Anubhav Nagpal) 21st century, like horse of Troy Birth of ‘her’, celebrated with joy (Equal rights and opportunities) No longer; treated like... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Crushed a Flower with a Footstep

  (Photograph by Abhay Tiwari) Please, talk to me about who you were before the walls were painted blue; Tell me the bruises, the aches, and time just added... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Departed

  (Artwork by Srijita Basu) A hell lot of unease engraved you, for the moment you had touched me (for the first time); pulling me a bit closer. But it was a lot... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Addicted

  (Artwork by Ritvi Ojha) She comes for me every night, Embraces me in her seductive cloak, Filled with needles; Painting her grey roses with my blood, She... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Coolie from Tawang

  (Photograph by Shreya Aggarwal) Amidst the crowded chaos of his historical workplace; the Nizamuddin Railway station, gnawing his time away; tenaciously thinkin... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Don’t Fall in Love with Me

  I will take you to the meadows and let you feel the nature’s wave wash over you, while the sun shines not too bright and the sky is just the right color of grey. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Just for You

  (Photograph by Abhay Tiwari) “Seems I failed to feel the real love.” It was a thought since morning and suddenly I saw your picture in my photo gallery. I saw... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Voyage

  (Artwork by: Anubhav Nagpal) A voyage with all in a ship of their own; It begins with a cry and ends with a mourn. It’s easy in the beginning; just cripples in... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wilderness

  “Fucktard! You hard tonight? Yea come over, bitch! I’ll have the drinks ready And I’ll have myself for you” Should we be these animals biting into each other’s... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Dark Night

  (Artwork by: Anubhav Nagpal) It was a dark night. It was always, for as long as I can remember, And I remember all of it. We couldn’t even mumble of mornings;... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Fourth Love

  (Featured image credits: Kanishka Rohilla) I smelled the rose she gave me; it was the best smell in the world. Until, I smelled her naked self intertwined with... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lost in Transition

  It wasn’t a promenade Of the collage of memories, Which is about to fade In the alley of reality. Can’t you feel its osculation? Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• (in)Sanity

  I feel disconnected and disoriented, While sensing everything that is in the capacity Of being sensed and everything that is not. I am not drunk but my body is... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Something

  When you search for something And you don’t know what that something is, You feel the crucifixion of your wisdom. The wisdom which has been the accomplishment o... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Shooting Stars Granting Wishes

  Gem is a word to explain you; outstanding but engraved in me. You are as perfect as an Illusion, reality cannot carry you. I am Nature, words of a poor saint an... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bygone

  I am trapped in the trap of expressionlessness. This is one of those rare moments where I cannot make out, exactly which emotion am I feeling. Emptiness... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Skylight

  They called me something I was not. Something was a speculation, a misperception. It was either a relief or an escape, But it was a burden I cannot bear. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2017 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION