A Mock Drill Called Life

A  Mock Drill Called Life

On a routine day in a mall, while browsing for gifts for a friend, I heard shots..or crackers. It is hard to tell the difference but considering the world we live in, the mind begins to replay inexplicable campus and mall shootings,  26/11, stories of people running for their lives in the middle of a […]

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TV Soaps: Impossible Is Nothing!

TV Soaps: Impossible Is Nothing!

  I read somewhere, “Nothing should live that isn’t a labour of great, great love.” But seriously, if nothing should live that isn’t a labour of great love, how come the people and things that are, sometimes vanish into the mist of time?  It’s nothing you haven’t contemplated before. There  ought to be some place beyond, a […]

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So Long..Supi

So Long..Supi

  During my school days my father would never get the names of my friends correct.  And this was especially so whenever Sriparna and Suparna were mentioned in conversations. “Kaun? woh gori wali?” (Who, that fair one?) he would ask trying to distinguish one from the other based on their skin tones. In reply I […]

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Closure..

Closure..

  Time’s overreaching as life murmurs to a close, A dialogue left incomplete before the season’s changed, Forced shut before the year drew out. Stripped of age and run dry of an era, An element of emptiness dripping down On those left behind. And the firmament sends waves like whispers up To fill  your open […]

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Soulmates

Soulmates

“The Indian Railway’s Second AC has lost its elitist air,” Harshal told himself irritably. Elbowing his way into his assigned seat, he glared at the passengers already settled in. They wore that shifty eyed look of proprietary, typical of wait-listed Indians. He rolled his eyes at the pedestrian domesticity surrounding him, cursing the college alumni association for advancing […]

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