2023-06-03 07:46
No new post is worthy of being posted. They warned me of this. Writing, especially for the sake of writing is bad choice. But, I went ahead anyway. "How much of a flimsy idiot are… Read More
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2022-11-17 05:25
Image Courtesy: https://www.hippopx.com/ Abandonment, true to its nature, stays. There is a sense of depression. Compulsive thinking is killing. Less of activity and more of thinking. S… Read More
2022-03-04 08:40
This time, I would simply like to quote a monologue from a very dear author's famous work, 'Train to Pakistan.' (Source: https://archive.org/details/TrainToPakistan_201805)In a world wi… Read More
2022-02-20 15:32
Multitudes are ablaze inside as I navigate the day. The song and dance of the frenzied emotions which take on the veil of calm & ease is extraordinarily stifling. The body shrivels… Read More
2021-07-03 10:32
Dried watermelon seeds fell from his jeans pocket. He had worn it after a long time, a faraway time, a time before this era. The era of Covid-19. That sultry day, in the intense activity of… Read More
2021-05-22 09:37
(Dawn of a cold morning. On a relatively isolated mountain top, they are silent. A word-war ensues.)SHE: You are an apostate.ME: Who, me? Huh... For that I have to belong.SHE: That's a given… Read More
2021-01-23 05:03
I wanted to publish a detailed account of a dear friend's wedding. So I copiously took some notes while going through the revelries, being very much a part of them. Or so my concerned friend… Read More
2020-11-11 05:50
Sometimes he want to burst out crying extremely loud and cry for all times to come. He doesn't want to stop at all... But nothing happens. The world is moving unlike what he might have assum… Read More
2020-11-11 05:49
I am an eternal romantic in the broadest sense of the term. Some people, places, events, situations, mannerisms and even some self-reflection exercises create an everlasting spool of thought… Read More
2019-10-31 06:23
An October 24, 2019 post by Zadie Smith in New York Review of Books, inspired this essay so I would like to duly acknowledge it by sharing its link.https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/2… Read More
2019-06-05 08:42
…Three characters who were the best of friends set out on a journey. Shortly after the below picture was taken one of them vomited because of the twisting and turning road from Mumbai… Read More
2019-06-03 06:43
“Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny; and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midni… Read More
2018-09-22 15:37
Scepticism as oppose to denial is about the believers and non-believers - my little world of people, places, events and perspectives. A question in a school text prompted me to come up with… Read More
2018-07-16 06:09
(NOTE - Term in the title is not about a certain Netflix series, though borrowed from it!)The fact that I write this is a setback of a kind. This one is the emotion of the wrong kind that st… Read More
2018-05-30 06:11
Part 1 - QUESTION"Bye bye Grandma." "And Asid left the house for work as usual. "When he came home that day everyone except his brother was emotional. His mother, father and the most his gra… Read More
2018-05-05 18:18
Many people will read sexually explicit and won't read further. Some might, secretly or openly. A growing kind are the ones outraged just looking at someone looking at these words!One o… Read More
2018-04-07 11:10
Once upon a time in 21st century India, there was a city called Garbage Nagar. It was frequented by foreign tourists as well as domestic tourists. Upon visiting the city, one would think tha… Read More
2018-04-04 09:34
...Why? How? But she could have...Psychedelic Maya, was she? Did drugs prove her undoing. She was a free spirit after all but then, not the likes I knew of. A heightened sense of self… Read More
2018-02-20 12:12
Laila is playing Holi with her relatives in their ancestral home. In a remote Uttar Pradesh village, this has been the yearly tradition of the Chaudhari family. One that Laila always looks f… Read More
2018-02-20 08:53
Nothing in that moment of tranquil sun suggested anything wrong. I was standing in a dreamy room overlooking the Parvati Valley in the laps of Himalayas. She liked nature so much that she pa… Read More
2017-08-31 03:17
I opened my eyes. The left one felt skin obstructing its opening. The right one opened up to a sight of nostrils; beautiful, pale, white nostrils. But it took me both 5 minutes and a year to… Read More
2017-08-01 05:40
Events seem to unfold vividly (played out again in our minds) from days bygone, retained in greatest detail, to the time of the day and the dress she was wearing...There used to be a girl wh… Read More
2017-02-28 02:27
People, sometimes I think there is nothing so convincing that I can write about but sometimes some events just make one have an opinion. The process of transmitting this opinion into languag… Read More
2017-02-28 02:25
[Yes, you read the title right! What follows is the story of most Indian girls, sadly if you ask me but true nevertheless in most cases.When we were school going age our teachers asked us to… Read More
2017-02-28 02:23
It started with a fantasy! Fantasy to play with the spoken word, just as my parents and grandparents and uncles and aunts seemed to do. But somehow the second I opened my mouth it was funny… Read More
2017-02-26 01:33
Hey... I always wanted to do this with an air of convenience. The words should just flow out from my mind to the edit box. I was waiting for the time this happened. The longer I wait the mor… Read More
2017-02-26 01:33
The agony of creation always starts with a disaster. Again, expressed in the limited knowledge that I possess. I most humbly was to submit in my first post the reason I don't indulge in the… Read More
2017-02-26 01:05
Musings of ... shall we say, an 'ordinary Indian life'Life w… Read More
2017-02-26 01:01
A push, my child is your creator,This very push can be your predator.Know what power it holds?A push in courage makes destiny, in veil rears vanity,Devoid of care, troubles soul innocent for… Read More
2017-02-26 01:00
This is a tale of an emerging I-land,Where S for society is negligibly silent. Or… Read More
2017-02-26 00:20
Siddhi and Neil were having lunch in a lavish hotel on a hot Saturday in Allahabad, India. It was May afternoon when the sun was… Read More
2017-02-25 23:39
One fine day a child was put forth to the mercy of mortals on the 1st of Jan 1986! This is his take on a new world around him. Here I was treading into a different world and you have no… Read More
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