The sun’s rays pierced through the plate-glass window of my flat, penetrating right into my eyes, rudely awakening me from my sleep. Mom used to constantly scold me for not sleeping facing the sun, years back when I was a child. Even though I used to disobey her back then, I started following every word… Continue reading Happy Birthday!
Category: Narration
Daily Blunder | ‘Brutally’ Honest
I know it’s been over a year and a half (or rather, a year and three quarters) since I wrote a proper ‘daily blunder’. Well, there wasn’t exactly a paucity of blunders in my life to go on a ‘blunder-break’, so to speak. I’ve a database of infinitely-huge blunders that I could well publish a… Continue reading Daily Blunder | ‘Brutally’ Honest
Lies
A good movie is intellectually stimulating. Especially, a Mani Ratnam flick. Fresh from watching ‘Kannathil Muthamittal’, I stifled a yawn and flopped onto the bed, thinking about the Tamil refugees of Sri Lanka, on which the award-winning movie was based on. It was about 11PM. On a normal day, I’d be sleeping like a log… Continue reading Lies
A Reporter’s Diary
For a while, Journalism was my dream career. It all started with ‘We the people’ – the famous talk show from NDTV 24×7. I started watching the show on my English teacher’s recommendation. Barkha had a lot in common with DP, or so felt my twelfth-grader-self. Like every other hat-tip from the teacher, I took… Continue reading A Reporter’s Diary