on a slow, blurry morning.
one of those mornings when…
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Tag: memories
pass me a chomchom, or make it three.
no one other than my parents and grandparents perhaps loved me the way she did when i was two and...
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you laughed in my dream
do you remember your dreams?
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a diwali morning ponder
a celebration it is.
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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...
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the girl called rhino
a wail rose up in the calm late afternoon air. the tail end of it came stalking into the room with...
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who put the toy in the binaca toothpaste box?
everything is complex, nothing is without its politics, yet when the voice you know so well does...
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with song and reverence and cap pistol… durga pujo
cap pistol (remember those?), rahul dev burman, new clothes, midnight movies, razia sultan,...
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five feet of the snake
“unpalatable to the lord of death! forerunner of the monkeys!! you’ve seen five feet...
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revolution
the tiny dark man in spotless white dhoti and panjabi – in bengal the kurta has been called that...
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by the pond
i dreamt of my father and mother today. he was looking handsome. she had that calm air about her...
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