“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
--Fyodor Dostoevsky

Avni woke on this particular Saturday morning in November and realized that it was eerily quiet again because of the power cut. San Francisco was still making up its mind to stay blanketed in fog or be sunny. Nothing indicated that her life would be thrusted on television by today... [Read More]

Near my gate at the airport, I sat and waited. In my head, I was sitting and laughing with my friends in our undergrad school cafeteria from 20 years ago. In-between, I heard that flight to Hyderabad, India was boarding. Hyderabad. We grew up together. The city and me that... [Read More]

It was a regular Monday evening. Shaheen watched the evening sun itch towards the boundary of the Bay from the meeting room. Evening time - she had never been a fan. Right from the time when she used to visit her Maasi in Ludhiana, she would bury her head in-between the pillows... [Read More]

The morning sun streamed through the leaves of the imli tree onto the cement platform. It looked like a calm place to sit and eat an orange on a lazy winter morning on the Ganga ghats — the mild warmth always helped to soothe the distressed souls. Until my apprentice made an... [Read More]

Jeena, a hard-working graduate student, finds herself walking down a rabbit hole of crime after a deadline. [Read More]

This is my writing prompt for today: [Read More]

The readers of this column (3.5 as of last count) might recount that in office, my rear end is usually placed at the corner of a triangle dominated by Xin Li’s in two parts to three. And it is usually very frigid there. Oh, partly because our office maintenance team... [Read More]

Some things tend to gather like dust bunnies under your bed until the day they fly right into your face when you are sleeping. A similar thing happened to me at office. You see, I was usually the first one in our team to get to office. It is very... [Read More]

Wary that I was sitting at the corner of a triangle dominated by Xin Li’s in two parts to three - one that I had not known that I didn’t know but had posted a party parrot welcoming him back and the other - well, who was not actually Xin... [Read More]

Today is the day of comebacks apparently. Shoaib Akhtar (a fast bowler) announced that he was coming back to play cricket, erm - league cricket, and bragged that he will “show today’s kids what speed is”. I don’t know Shoaib, the “kids” these days hump each other as soon as they see each... [Read More]

One fine Thursday morning, I was talking to my younger brother over phone and that fellow started talking about how he wants to switch his career because he has too much time on his hands in his current job. I felt so old – I just cannot relate to millennials.... [Read More]

This is a topic I got from one of my second dates. Let me back up a bit and start from the beginning though. [Read More]

Tak-tak-tak type away the keyboards. “The hive partition — batch options — ummm — what’s driving this — you know that — sometimes it is — ha ha .. spark job failing — we are not going 5 points but still — I think the score for this is 25 seconds — it is a very different scenario — ” … the incessant voices bombard my ears. Girl, everyone around... [Read More]