The Wedding Anniversary

The Wedding Anniversary

He was not a great looker; he never considered it necessary perhaps to cultivate that side of his personality. As things worked out, however it didn’t matter much. He had a brilliant, if rather eccentric mind and she was young. In-fact they both were. There was a chance meeting perhaps at the bus stop, through […]

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The Ring

The Ring

It lay well within his grasp. A gold band twinkling defiantly at him. The diamond encrusted crown caught the sun rays as they filtered through the wooden beams of the little, suburban church and glittered like a thousand ripples on a mountain stream. The ring was brand new, from a very fine jeweller in Manhattan. […]

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Sugo’s Ramayana

Sugo’s Ramayana

Sugo was a tall, thin, very dark, really scrawny, bat-eared guy of about 15. He had large horn-rimmed glasses, a sullen expression and round, bulbous eyes. Now any one would think from my description that he was an extremely unattractive chap, but not really, he was just at that stage in life when guys don’t […]

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A Long Night

A Long Night

10 PM.  Our day has just started. Things don’t look too cheerful; there is a dingy slum, right before our eyes. The street light has a habit of illuminating all the things you don’t want to see, like a child defecating on the kaccha pavement. The auto passes leaving us in the throes of black […]

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