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Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Bulge Watch


From times immemorial, there has been a fight, nay war, being waged by mankind against an enemy that is rebellious, resilient, pervasive, persistent and above all one who knows he has a foothold or a way back in and thus can never be fully defeated. 
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Wednesday, 29 September 2021

YOU, YES YOU....I MEAN YOU ONLY!

 

Image source: Pixabay

I have the strangest of triggers to self-demolition. Imagine a police station with a row of crime suspects and you and I are a part of the audience. If the inspector in-charge were to menacingly question, "I give you one minute to tell me, which one ofRead More »

Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Mot Juste

The English language has the propensity of bestowing us with a mot juste - appropriate vocabulary to address every contingency. Society demands certain norms of verbal etiquette and politeness even under duress. 

There are scores of words out there that you can happily useRead More »

Sunday, 11 April 2021

The Sky does Fall!


If someone told me the whole world would come crashing down someday soon, I'd tell them to stop being such a doom-monger! Little did I expect anything like that to happen, like literally the ceiling come crashing all over me! For something to happen, you need not step out. ItRead More »

Monday, 28 December 2020

Happy Smells

Smells. I find them to be one of the most powerful senses that can trigger distant memories like nothing else. The association of smells are pretty random at times and seem unrelated but they have somehow managed to register a lingering imprint on my mind. Writing this has beenRead More »

Wednesday, 18 November 2020

A Diwali Lament


 

A Diwali Lament


I waited in vain for little hands to pounce and pry,
to open the carton and feast their eyes on me. 

To see their eyes light up in wonder and amazement,
as I burst into a dazzling display of light and color. 

I, who proclaimed jubilantly, 

Tuesday, 11 August 2020

The Good Scare



"Yahan se pachas pachas kos door gaon mein, jab bachha raat ko rota hai, toh maa kehti hai, bete so ja, so ja nahi toh Gabbar Singh a jayega."

Iconic lines, aren't they? Mothers from times immemorial have used, booboo, bogeyman, buddha baba, rakshas,
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