Pasta – Escape!
Those were the days of pizza-craze.Favourite food? The answer, without skipping a beat, was 'Pizza'. A--, the popular joint frequented [...]
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01, 2010
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01, 2010
When Ads come of age
Explaining things to a 4-year-old could be tricky. With his sharp retorts and observant queries, one could never be too [...]
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01, 2010
The Dark Night
She decided to join for the tour because the entire school, including her closest friends, seemed to be participating. Besides, [...]
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01, 2010
Unfathomable Laundry Magic
Laundry Mathematics has always baffled me. In fact, for long, I did not even realise that there was a strange [...]
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01, 2010
Rebirth
So much water has flowed under the bridge.The bridge, through much disuse and lack of care, has decayed, splintered and [...]
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12, 2009
Phases from Life
In the creative writing workshop I attended last weekend, there was an exercise, to write about a wild dream or [...]
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12, 2009
As it breaks…
The water flowed through the straight, open duct. It has been, for years.And for years it would go on before [...]
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12, 2009
The toughness of surrender
A scene in a film I watched recently reminded me of a discussion that I had with a friend long [...]
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11, 2009
Challenges or Signs?
My friend sounded quite unhappy when I spoke to her yesterday. Her worry was her job. She likes the domain [...]
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10, 2009
Oct 31, 1984
When the news of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination began to spread, the whole country was in turmoil. Nothing of [...]