Writing 101
Unlike what many writers will declare after the event, writing is a damn hard thing to do. And since it isn’t easy for me to write this, I shall put together the following bullet points for new writers, and I shall call it Six Tough Rules to Writing Well:
Read MoreEeny Meeny Miny Friend
‘I wish I had known,’ said Divya. ‘Just a hint.’ And she started crying, small sobs that were threatening to rise to large gulps any moment. After some time she settled down, and took a deep breath to drown out the sobbing. She wiped her tears with the back of her hand.
Read MoreTimes of Trouble
Rhonda is beautiful and blonde. She has short hair cropped close to her skull, and smiling lips. Her eyes radiate peace. She wears a skirt suit, with an olive green tank top underneath, and low-heeled black shoes. In her ears she wears tiny diamond studs, and around her neck a small diamond pendant on a [...]
Read MoreForever Who
Akash was a 47 year old alcoholic. His first wife left him because he loved his second wife more than her, and his second wife left him because he loved whisky more than her. His parents abandoned him because divorce was a disgrace for their family, and a double divorce was inexcusable. His children couldn’t [...]
Read MoreHobby Horse
My mother never had a hobby. There was no time for one. She cooked and she cleaned the house and wiped our asses when we were babies, and stitched our clothes from scraps of fabric gifted to us by various relatives, and after doing all this, she went to work as a schoolteacher. And when [...]
Read MoreFamily Life
Sushila Aunty was the talk of the family. She never married in the days when it was unfashionable to be single. Sushila Aunty is a doctor, and once I asked her, when she was in a mellow mood, why she remained unmarried. She looked at me strangely, as though I was being quaint, and said, [...]
Read MoreAliens
I have a recurring nightmare. I am in the Amazon jungle, and a rare Indian tribe is planning to do weird things to my body, including eating me up. I wake up just as the chief is starting to chop off my pinkie.
Read MoreBig People Small Statements
Rosa Parks was an African American citizen who refused to get up and give up her bus seat for a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. This individual act of defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which led to further civil disobedience movements by African Americans, fighting for equality in the deeply racially segregated Southern states [...]
Read MoreTill Death Us Do Part
It is eight in the morning and the phone rings just once before it is picked up by may father’s ready and waiting hand. For every day, for the past seven years, the phone has rung like this every single day at eight in the morning. Uncle Ram is on the other side. He has [...]
Read MoreLife at Twilight
At a certain point, the thought of old age haunts one constantly. This is usually the stage when one’s parents have become dependent because of ill-health. They are lonely, since they are no longer socially active. They are bored since they can no longer go out for entertainment. They are ill-tempered, since they have to [...]
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