Meeting the 3 idiots-Part 1

Usually I never looked at the name board of our institution but that day something garish screamed at me, so I looked up and did a double take! Imperial College of Engineering??? Since when?? I stopped my car at the guardroom to show my ID and enquired about it. Movie shoot, I was told. The […]

The Scorpion

We sat sifting through our trunk loads of clothes and utensils and books. The usual segregation into needed /not needed categories, before the trunks were packed, loaded on a truck and sent off.Our life was totally contained in some 34 Steel and wooden Trunks of varying sizes, some even big enough for our refrigerator and […]

The Pakistani Pathos

Humsafar, Zindagi Gulzar Hai,Maat,Thakan…got hooked on to Pakistani serials a couple of years ago when they were state sponsored and we were trying to build bridges but can’t get enough of it now with the anti Pak sentiments controlling our airwaves. So YouTube it is. What is this friend and foe business? I have had […]

Awesome!

The word was nowhere around when I was growing up. Not even when I was majoring in English. It was not there when I needed it the most : to sum up the might and suaveness of the dashing young men trying to impress me! I had to resort to at least five to seven […]

Sunday Treat

As a child, Sunday meant so much! From no bath in the morning to Mummy struggling in the kitchen doling out crisp masala dosas and a leisurely breakfast eaten off a plate and not from a tiffin box. Papa devouring two newspapers over endless supply of tea followed by Papa’s quick jaunt to the barber’s […]

Kashmir Do, Bihar Lo.

On that sweltering day of July in Hyderabad, she just floated into the dining hall of our officers’ mess.A True Kashmir ki Kali in a cyan blue salwar suit, blushing and beautiful, she gushed over her own late arrival at the training academy!! Most of us were already in the rigours of our rigorous training […]

The Reunion.

The feeling was better than the caffeine hit! The fresh tide of memories,their very names brought to my mind was so much better than my first coffee of the day. I was recently added to a whatsapp group of primary school class buddies from almost 3 decades ago. Did I like it? Is it not […]

Emojis Play on me.

I am amazed by the power of the Emoji. How the animated can have a hold over our hearts and minds?Did the evolution of language ever make provisions for emojis to rule modern communication in the Twentyfirst Century, I don’t think so. A smile, a lift of the eyebrow, a zipped up mouth and a […]

The Healer takes it all.

She is all understanding. She hears me out. Just grunts and hmms with no unnecessary ‘I told you so’. She is my comforter. Has always been. I just pick up my phone and babble on and on. But at times I wonder,who does she turn to for her pain? Like me, there are many who […]

If you may, do re-invent.

“I’m not happening” was her lament as my dear friend complained of her Horlicks-y life.What would she be wanting? What can she be lacking? This brings me to the question of Boredom.Why do we feel stuck up in life? A great job, a good family life, and absolutely “no problems “.We discussed over and over […]