Shruti Ravindran

Shruti Ravindran is a features writer with Outlook magazine. She writes on subjects ranging from health, arts, cultures, and specialises in the quaint and the odd. She also writes on travel and literature; and is sometimes called upon to decimate heinous combinations of both. For a year, she drew a graphic comic-reportage column for City Limits, called Local Hero. And is currently awaiting something -- either comic or heroic or even odd -- to show her an entirely new direction.

…on the beach 

Before the morning can leach its dull boats

to salt-sprinkled skeletons, they're plunged,

those mirages, into the water.

Even the horizon forgets them. 

A pair of lovers, heat-hazed, gaze

at one another within a chaste

tent of cloth they erect, despite

the sudden naughty flutter of wind.