I have been to the theatre only 16 times in my life, and when I went to see that movie, I was 22, and on number 11. I had been incredibly austere back then, and the four years of literal... Continue Reading →
I was but a boy of 15 years, brown-eyed, brown-haired, brown-faced and brawny-physiqued, staring wide-eyed into the great Indian dream of getting the best Indian education and then leaving the great Indian subcontinent for good; firstly, because there seemed to... Continue Reading →
If there was any planet I ought to have been on, it should have been either Neptune or Mercury. One year on Neptune is equivalent to 164.8 years on earth and Mercury on the other hand, does not have any seasons. Similarly, my life... Continue Reading →
And for a moment I was 16 again- a ridiculous and conflicting mixture of naivety, bashfulness, eagerness and excitement. How to be one emotion for a moment and to then metamorphose into something opposite the very next! But that's how... Continue Reading →
He had never liked tea. Even as almost the whole office rushed to try out my latest blueberry flavored import, he simply sat and watched, with nonchalance and amusement, the sort of dismissiveness with which a teen scoffs at beings... Continue Reading →
I never felt the need to know how thistle differed from mauve or what gave scarlet and crimson their distinct identities; to me they remained labels marked on the little tubes of water colors. It was the final shade that mattered.... Continue Reading →
Hermit in Red Lipstick 