21.09.2025
A: What did you do today?
Me: Grew older. Walked towards death a little more.
A: It’s so refreshing to find you cheerful.
Me: Cheer. Jeers. Fear. Who knows when you will find them?
A: But to the question…
Me: One is permitted to meander towards it, no?
A: Come.
[claps his hands]
Me. Here is a list. And in order:
– reading the BBC news
– meditating
– light weights
– listening to new Hindi music while eating breakfast
– editing and publishing photographs (3 hours)
– juggling
– writing to friends
– fifty push ups, thirty stomach crunches, abdominal cycling with legs
– lunch of lentil curry and bread
– walk to the local shops
– grocery shopping
– phone call to friend
– job application
– five minutes on my exercise bike as fast as I could go
– gelato in the town centre – cherry, chocolate fudge brownie and white chocolate
– walk in the park
– learning Hindi songs for a performance in a choir on the walk back home
– browsing in the shops on the walk back home
– organising a trip to a comedy club with a friend
– writing a newsletter
– reading ‘Abroad in Japan’
– language learning of Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Spanish and French
– looking at art and photographs on Instagram
– sketching
– more writing
A: Another day of producing.
Me: With no result.
A: Why produce then? Why do anything at all?
Me: Krishna told Arjuna to do without thinking of a reward.
A: Are you Krishna? Or Arjuna?
Me: I am both. I am Karana too. I am Indian.
diary of a lone man 