Just before the summer vacation, she seemed child-like (obviously as I thought it to be childhood), waiting to be told what to do with the backdrop of the terror of examination in her thoughts. Somehow, she was able to squeeze through the so-called most-important examinations of her century – the Board examinations. Finally, the summer-break […]
Recently, I came across what you could call a bizarre story. This is a short story is called ‘Wakefield’ by the author Nathaniel Hawthrone. One fine day (maybe not-so fine), Wakefield decides to absent himself from his life and goes into self-banishment. He tells his wife that he is going on a short trip and […]
Recently, I had met a high-ranking military officer. During the long conversation we had, he casually mentioned that his wife has a Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech) degree but she never worked. Initially after their marriage she had thought of taking up a job but after eventually after starting a family she finally decided not to […]
Perfect Days is a 2023 movie originally made in Japanese language. It is the story of a man named Hirayama, who is a middle-aged person living in Tokyo, Japan and earns a living by cleaning public toilets. He enjoys his work and does it in a meditative trance. The movie continues in a loop of […]
The relationship between immortality and immorality is as close as the words look similar – just the letter ‘T’ makes all the difference between the two words. Immortality is, however, closely linked with immorality. What would you do if you were immortal – if you knew you would never die? In a finite world, immortality […]
There is a place in the capital of India where even the Sun God is scared to shower its rays – it is called ‘Dingy’ corridor of the Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College. The hostel or rather the ‘Residence Hall’ of LSR is a rectangle shaped structure with rooms in all four sides and a […]
This weekend, I read ‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus once again. It is approximately a 125 page read and can be easily read in a few hours, even for a first time read. A few years ago, I picked up this book when I was on the lookout for short philosophical novellas. This novel is […]
Every day on my drive to work, I pass through traffic signals and I find beggars passing from one vehicle to another asking for alms. It is always the same faces that I see- to the point that I know at which traffic signal, which beggar resides – be it the middle-aged man who ties […]
A few days ago, I received an image from Onisha- a picture of 3 bits of paper with the following text: ‘Please keep dinner – 2 roti and sabzi’ ‘Please don’t keep dinner’ ‘Main department jaa rahi hu Crib session* ke liye (I am going to department for Crib session). Will come back in ½ […]
Every morning between 5 am to 7 am, I see something phenomenal happening on the roads. The roads which are black at 5 am are decorated with a yellowish to brownish color designs usually at the sides and sometimes in the middle of the road. In south-India, there is a practice of washing the front […]
