the baghdadi jewish dish that was created in mumbai and kolkata

the taste was sour and sweet, a smooth, compelling aroma filled my mouth and nose, the texture was silky, a ...

forever

the lover had a question:will you love me forever?what is forever, asked the windwhere is forever, mused the leafin the ...

The Writers’ Block – A poem

Have you seen it, have you seen it anywhere go? It always would be with me, now it’s not anymore ...

A long rainy night

I stepped onto the verandah And felt the change in the air A cool, mystic feeling Had spread everywhere A ...

After a long holiday …

I woke up early in the morning. Somehow I knew it was early in the morning. But, one thing I ...

a kosher take on my mother’s chicken chaat recipe

my mother was not fond of cooking. i do not recall her toiling over the stove for hours to make ...

Different dreams – A poem

My dreams were small, never so big When you show a big dream, I don't know what to do with ...

a payesh for shavuot

more than 3,300 years ago it is believed, god gave the torah to the jewish people on mount sinai. shavuot ...

Reservations: An observation – All in good humour

Dealing with reservations is a part of life. Whether one needs it or not, it is inescapable. Whenever I fill ...

every now and then

my world collapses every now and then in the middle of an afternoon under an indolent sun when the air ...

New mother at crossroads – A poem

It is always hard for a new mother, whose maternity leave is about to end and they have to go ...

rebellion

she'd not seen yellow butterflies take over the strawberry patch or the beds of nasturtiums, dog flowers, and phlox in ...

let it go

sometimes, i think, just let it go even if most certainly absolutely positively you know something someone’s saying is not ...

the replacement bug

we think we can replace everything. friends, pets, kidneys, countries, even computers. no, seriously. lost someone? broken something? house taken ...
thinking

To Give or Not to Give..

Many many years ago, so many that I no longer remember how many, I remember writing an essay for my ...

that plant on my desk

it stood on the shelf in its plastic pot among a row of plants you could buy for a few ...

to an unknown soldier

my soldier, you are goneto paradise or beyond this universe’s realmi have no way of knowingthe aching winds bring news ...

i’ve burnt with you

i've burnt with you slowly, sustainedly in scorches, in conflagration in flames i have burnt with you incinerating cremating my ...

Wonder?! – A wondering poem

Did you ever wonder, sometimes on a busy day Why a little longer, some moments would not stay? Catch those ...

have you been to kerala?

i don't think the "god's own country" campaign had started when i first went to kerala. it was in the ...

i don’t look at you any more

i don't look at you any more for i think you're the same every day yet you aren't, are you ...

A Future Fantasy – A poem

Sometimes I wonder, how the future would be Sometimes I ponder on the lines of a fantasy With not just ...
last night dance

Last night.. I danced…

Last night, in a jumble of dreams, I danced... I was back in the newly built school auditorium. Now that ...

i am grateful for the silence in the night

i am grateful for the silence in the night as a i sleep there are no gunshots from near or ...