Tears of Shame

It’s more than 2 months now since terror found a new form in India. We were still ignorant of that form in other nations, and we (as always) chose to rest assured that terror will always strike in the  ”conventional” ways of bomb blasts and attacks on Indian Armed Forces in the valley.
So when the terrorists struck, [...]

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ASNF

There’s this bank’s ad being aired on TV. The son is leaving home early morning the next day, and his dad is going over the check list over dinner the night before. He’s worried when his son says the flight is at 5 am the next morning. He’s worried that his son won’t make it to the airport in time. [...]

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The Sentinel

Ali lay quietly on his jute rope woven cot in the garden. It was a quarter after 10, and the neighbourhood was quiet. He had dinner and was looking for a nap before his shift started at 2 a.m. He was the Chief of the Elite Patrol of the Police force of a town in Arabia. [...]

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Now

I’m sitting on my Activa outside the sabji mandi. It’s 6.30 in the evening, the streetlights have fully warmed up and are throwing light in everyone’s face. Taai is buying veggies for home, and I’m waiting for her. I’m idle and just take a look around and suddenly I change gears.
There is a chana wala [...]

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Life As It Is

“Aai (mother), I want that balloon”, he pleaded. His mother looked at him calmly, smiled, and returned to her job. She was a daily wages worker, and her current job was breaking big stones into smaller ones for some road that would connect a plush area to some other road. She was not interested in [...]

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The Practicality of it all

Kiddo says I’m super practical. And she’s right. I am. I have a very blunt way of looking at things, and of expressing myself (the rare times when I actually do, that is). I don’t usually resort to politically correct means, or diplomacy. I somehow don’t revel in false pretenses and sugar coated daggers. Kiddo [...]

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Walls

The two years I studied my MBA, ‘Globalization’ was a buzzword. Everyone ranted on about how the protectionist policies that countries set up to protect its domestic industries from superior MNCs were now changing, and the so called ‘Walls’ were being demolished. I also read a wonderful book by Thomas Friedman on globalization in which [...]

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Guilt Edged Lives

I am an agitator. Hum like a mosquito in people’s ears and chances are they’ll turn on the other side, but bite them and they’ll wake up to your existence. The best way to capture people’s imagination is to spread unrest, and with national media concerned only about TRPs, all I need to do is break [...]

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To Cheer or not to Cheer

So the moral brigade is at it once again. Apparently, the cheerleaders are smudging the rich and sacred culture and the pure minds of innocent people, and it’s upto these saviours to protect the interests of their fellow Homo Sapiens. What frustrates me about this whole issue is the double standards of the agitators. We [...]

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Impossible is nothing

Just love this quote

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. Its an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. Its a dare. Impossible is potential. [...]

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