Goa, Feb. 28 -- by Harshal Desai

I refuse to believe 'rest' is merely a requirement as a response to tiredness, to exhaustion. 'Rest' is not merely a state of reclaiming one's health. A kind of a bodily 'stagnancy', whose prescription is made necessary only by the prevalent disease or exhaustion. The ordinary course of our lives is after all also a tiresome vocation. All the tiredness seems to seep into the body little by little. And the days are like heavy drops, from a constantly dripping tap, each sent hiding deep into the earth.

Rest is more than mere reclamation (of health). Rest is also more than the vocabulary of pain and tire in whose context we have learned to name it. Rest is a place of defining health itself. A place we enter...