The edge of reason
When words move out of their homes And emerge like stubble, all prickly It is time to shave them off We carve our future with a dose of ambitions But sometimes the cravings get out of hand, Boisterous. It is then time to take the whip out. A stubble can be boisterous but not a...
‘Me?’ I asked, giving my stubble a thoughtful rub
‘Me?’ I asked, giving my stubble a thoughtful rub, ‘You want me to write on what would make men get rid of their evening stubble?’ We looked at each other and I could see that there was a tinge of confusion and another hint of a smile thinking who would win. Well, laughter meandered freely...
Stubble Tales
She always says, ‘Let my hands glide down your cheeks like a reveller goes down a water-slide.’ She is forever yearning for her husband to have the ‘best shaved face of the year’ look… and he has been doing this for a long time now. After all, they have been staying together now for more...
Bigfeet, Miao, and Nizamuddin. Review of ‘The Wildings’
I remember I loved reading George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’. I remember I loved seeing all those wonderful, animated films where animals speak a language that we humans understand. There is certainly a charm where the human mind tries to get into the mind of an animal and reasons. Nilanjana has done the same, though she...
Of guided missiles and misguided men
Politics, power, and public are three Ps that are always together… I was thinking initially of giving this post a simpler and more direct title: ‘The three Ps – Politics, Power, and Public’ but realized that there was less drama apparent than it actually had in it. The three Ps are like a primed grenade...
There’s quite a bit of magic in shopping
Ah, shopping! A magic far beyond all we do here! Most of my past moments that keeping popping up as memories have a lot to do with walks down any of the markets, looking wistfully at the windows full of dreams. From Jhansi to Dehradun, from Delhi to London, from Seoul to Sydney… shops and...
Being sexy@sixty is simply being S.M.A.R.T
I am walking to the payment counter in a big crowded Book Store carrying ‘Sexy@Sixty’ in my hands. My wife, coming from the other direction, with a load of books, stops, glances at the title and says: ‘Sexy at Sixty?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘But you aren’t sixty yet.’ ‘I will be…’ ‘Why don’t you just begin your...
Adventures with untruth
Taboo? Fear? Inhibition? Shame? What are you talking about? There is surely nothing on the television or the daily papers that cannot be discussed by one and all. Anywhere. From a panchayat meeting in the interiors of Himachal Pradesh to a ‘cooking with wine’ get together for bloggers at the Cheri in New Delhi… from...
Murder is murder. Everything else is just details. (Review of ‘The devotion of suspect X’ by Keigo Higashino)
Yes, this one is a murder story. The first forty-eight pages hold your hands and take you around this little town by the river Sumida. They build an image within you that you cannot forget and at the same time rapidly build the characters of Yasuko, her daughter Misato, the Math teacher Ishigami, and Togashi,...
The Radish Mystery
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Ravan inspires!
Families are always a strange band of characters and can come up with the most surprising results whenever they sit and work together. I still remember what we did on the 6th of October in 2011. What do I do with my Ravan? When I asked a philosopher ‘What do I do with my Ravan?’...
Sun-glasses and the eternal seeker within me
‘Why do I want to buy shades?’ – is the question I was once very prone to ask myself. But this was before my encounter with the sunglasses salesman in a large store in a large mall in Delhi. My wife and I were at the shades counter there and I was looking wistfully at...
