Men will be Men – Taking it from Steve

The following is an excerpt from TV series Coupling and Steve’s reply at the end sums it up for all men all over the globe. [ Steve's ...

The Soul Mates…

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who sho...

The “Karwachauth”

I lived by the end of a narrow street where the alley merged into a dim lit cross road. It was a locality of middle class service men who le...

गधे के पूत…

The following incident was reported in the newspaper yesterday. “ A 17-year-old girl was killed and her mother critically injured after they...

Happy To Conclude…

I have followed the news on the proceedings of trial against Ajmal Kasab and read numerous accounts of the survivors of the Mumbai terror at...

Sue This…

This follows from an online report I read a couple of days where a man sued his wife for being ‘ugly’. The man apparently won a $ 120,000 se...

Dusshera 2012

Dusshera as a festival perhaps doesn’t need any introduction for anyone born and brought up in India. I know its a little late to make this ...

Amrita Pritam’s Best - मैं तैनू फिर मिलांगी

This is one of the finest pieces I ever came across. The imagery is sublime and divine at the same time. Heart wrenching and yet as beautif...

Silence is a Scary Sound…

Silence is a scary sound specially when it blares from within. The empty walls echo the heart beat to a thump that hammers the skull from ...

That Time of The Year….

This one follows from one of the posts written around the same time about three years ago. I guess some things don’t change. Catch the pr...

Be Barfi…!!!

How do you define a feeling when you have a tear that refuses to leave the eyes but still carry a wry smile on your lips? When you have a lo...

From a Distance…

I watched her from a distance. The simmering lights flickered about throwing shadows on the wall. She kept throwing glances at irregular int...

Justice Delayed is….

It’s been nearly four years since Ajmal Kasab landed on the shores of Mumbai and massacred people at will. For a crime as heinous as he comm...

Back to Basics

Been a while since I posted anything. The last month or so has been a struggle of sorts. Struggle to settle back in the groove where I flew ...

A Pledge

Someone at work today asked me where “GoooWaahaati” was? The guy who asked this innocent question was an American citizen who had little ink...

Niyati

तुम्हारा मेरा यही क्षितिज था इन्द्रधनुष का दूसरा छोर पथ की इस द्विशाखा से अब तुम एक ओर, मैं इक ओर पीछे छूटी उग्र वो लहरें किनारे बाँधी...

A Letter to Write…और अनकही

Never thought this would make it from the drafts..It just seemed better after I read it last night than the time when I wrote it. Interestin...

Two Friends I Will Never Have Enough Of…

During my early teen years, I spent a lot of evenings with someone who left an indelible mark on my being. This guy happened to be a medical...

Another Day, Another Morning….

Once there was a day that was born out of the womb of a sleepless night, a day which gave way to a weary sluggish afternoon and a forlorn sa...

The Time Traveler

I tried telling her again that evening that we had met somewhere someplace else before. She did not believe it. I tried quoting a few things...

The Payback

By the time you read this, I would be gone. Gone long enough to have never existed. A story untold, forgotten between the pages which never ...

When you live long, you die more than once…

I read about the death of yesteryear’s actress Achala Sachdev a day after she passed away. She died at a ripe age of 91 after prolonged hosp...

Un Dino..

कुछ उन दिनों की बात है जब जाड़ों की झीनी धूप अपने साथ ऊंघते, अलसाये,   दिन में पलते सपने लाती थी.   तब शायद दिसम्बर का महीना इतना सर्द नहीं ह...