Come December and The Times of India would run stories featuring the best and worst of all that happened through the year in all the fields from art to the zaika (flavour) of the season. Papa, would want me to read it all so my general knowledge remained good. The TOI does not do it…
Month: December 2020
Random Thought! #23
A big thank you to every one here: my followers, and fellow bloggers. Each one of you enriched me with your likes, comments and responses and also by sharing your stories. You gave me new perspectives and directions to think in and influenced me to be slightly better than how I was at the beginning…
Christmas Star
When it’s cold and dark and sad, when thousand things are left unsaid, the tears, the pain and frustration tooAnd the times when I lash at you. Knowing full well you too are in fight, yet I moan and I slight. You take it all in your stride and keep burning bright. Telling me, all…
SNAFU!
There’s a small population in this world which not only makes mistakes but makes them famously and is embarrassed of them for eons. These people are afflicted with foot n’ mouth disease, no not the viral kind which affects the bovine population. I mean the one that lends them in situations where the populace succeeds…
Cul-de-sac!
Death seems to have taken fancy of me. It is a sort of constant companion these days. A colleague lost her husband, the next day I lost my father and as we were arranging for the funeral my mother in law took ill and I had to return the very next day to make arrangements…
A Birthday Gift!
Abhay always wanted two things for himself. One he wanted to live for 500 years and secondly, he appreciated my mediocre writing so much that he wanted me to write a book on him and I always laughed it off.It would have been his 50th birthday this 19th of November and I had always dreamt…
Don’t judge a book by its cover!
What do you make out from the image that you see for this post? A post about longing, a yearning, missing someone very dear. Oh my! You are a genius! And now the time for revelation… I used to play a lot of scrabble with my father and grandfather as a teenager and then it…