He woke up with a shock. Light coming from the window with no curtain had already filled the room. He looked at the calendar almost hoping it’ll be something different. Nope. It was not. It was his birthday. Birthdays are supposed to be happy occasions. Particularly if it’s your 60th. That’s when you retire from your [...]
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An old man’s dream
Posted in Fiction, India, People, tagged 60th, Fiction, India, old man, personification, Republic on January 26, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Sending an woman to heaven…
Posted in People, rambling, real life incident, tagged fat, girls, grandma, saturday on January 10, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Okay. before you start imagining things. This post is about a ‘vaikuntha samaradhana’ ( apparently a ritual to send a dead person to ‘Gods own country’) of a friend of my grandma’s that I attended. Two thoughts. 1) When I saw her for the first time, she was around 75 and I was around 3 years [...]
Thinking too much?
Posted in People, Travel on August 3, 2009 | 16 Comments »
‘Where are you from, Sir?’ the question made me turn away from the window to face my fellow traveler. It had been 10 days since I left Bangalore to visit the Valley of Flowers. I was on my way back and was deeply immersed in the process of recalling what all I had felt and [...]
