“It all began on that old bridge on a rainy dawn ……” said the old man, picking up a handful of salted peanuts to munch. “What old bridge old timer?” said the youth impatiently.  The old man took a long draught of ale and thought back. “It was an old wooden bridge that creaked in [...]

The cell phone rang, the number flashing was just the one to avoid. The doorbell rang, he peered through the peephole, and withdrew. He signaled to his wife to say that he wasn’t at home and ran into the loo. Every day he played a cat and mouse game, he hated them, damn recovery agents.

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Remember the song in a movie called Kati Patang which went “Mera Naam Hai Shabnam”.  Hmmm I thought Bindu looked hot and Asha Parekh seriously lost in the life and charisma department.  However that is not what this blog post is about …. It is a prayer of thanks to Godji for giving my folks [...]

Ignoring her, they gathered in a corner sipping their chai, envy making them bond in bitchiness. Desperately they hunted for flaws in her life. Why did she have everything, rich husband, young lover, and perfect kids? How did she manage to remain slim and wrinkle free? How dare she highlight their flaws by showing up?

(Thanks Taposh!) Moonlings are petrified   Top Moon officials are running scared, The President of the planet Moon Called a High Alert meeting at noon To tell the cabinet members “Beware”   These aliens are singing a dangerous tune Once they called sweethearts fair as moon Then they said they landed a man on our [...]

He was forty and successful and powerful.  She, his mistress, was 21, mother of twins and abandoned.  For her he was a meal ticket, for him she was lust and rewards of success. Thirty years later, he’s old, lonely cocooned in wealth, she loves him, but loves her family more – its young and lively

“Hurry up, let’s go” “Where?” He asked, sipping his evening tea “Petrol prices are rising, we need to fill the car”, she was wearing her shoes “How much will we save” he grumbled Bright smile and a reply “One more movie this month” He smiled, tiredness forgotten as he fell in love with her again

On popular demand, links to my stories published my CBSE The Ghost on the  Boundary Wall Monkeys have no sense of humour These are currently being taught to Class XII students of English Creative Writing

Funny, I seem to remember the plastic chairs as red!  Oh no, they were red when my daughter was born.  I remember her, squalling angry red faced horror.  I hated her on sight.  Yeah ….. she grew up into a demanding shrew, married that gay kind of person.   Hate him too!  What she needed was [...]