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 […]

Read More Kashmir Do, Bihar Lo.

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 […]

Read More The Reunion.

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 […]

Read More Emojis Play on me.

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 […]

Read More The Healer takes it all.

“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 […]

Read More If you may, do re-invent.

She changed it again! Why daily darling? I asked risking her wrath. She smartly replied ” but you do check it out daily “. “And like you, many others do so too, so my objective is met.” I was stumped. Virtual dating games have redifined relationship equations, don’t you think? But, who am I to […]

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