There is nothing wrong with ‘I’
I choose. I am responsible. I need to be accountable. I love. I am not flawless. I need a bit of sex in my life. I need to constantly improve. I need to help others achieve their potential.
The new-age untouchables
Scene 01 The aroma of zingers is everywhere… and fried chicken in multiple avatars is on trays being carried by some really hungry people and some not so hungry ones. But as I peered through this aisle jam of chicken-laden trays, I noticed an old lady carrying an iPad like you hold a tray. My...
In pursuit of a promise
Life has three Ps… pursuit, promise, and perception. Each of us is seemingly pursuing a goal, a person, an idea, a thought, or an ambition. Our moments are full of promises to others, to our own self, to inanimate objects, and God. What we do and how we go about doing it is inextricably bound...
My Yoga Rhymes
Night is gone but dreams are on And sleep for me goes on and on Until my wife says: ‘Get up, you bum Brush your teeth to be my chum!’ ‘There’s a better way,’ says my tab. And it is my trusty smiling lab! ‘Set an alarm of a song you like And you’ll wake...
TRAVE-nama
This is no drama Nor just a fancy panorama And if you’ve heard of Akbarnama Or Dozakhnama You’ll know what I mean When I ask you to read my TRAVE-nama! My Trave-nama isn’t just an account of my travels into lands that stay forever in your memory. There have been many such travels and I...
Learning from a dog
‘Dogs do have a lot of poetry going on around their lives,’ I said. ‘Really?’ Specky was clearly not very sure of what I was trying to say, and so I had to clarify to her that dogs have probably inspired more people to write about them than have cats or lions or camels or...
The alphabet of creative tweets
Winning an FC Bayern München Team Tee-shirt and the team cap isn’t something that one writes about… but if the tee is signed by the world-class footballers in the team, it becomes a different matter altogether! This happened on the 25th of May 2013… and it was a contest on twitter. You might ask: ‘Why was Bayern...
Twitter, Poetry, and Audi
Poetry on twitter? Is poetry really possible in just 140 characters? Can you possibly write reasonably logical couplets if you need to make space for some hash-tag and probably for a longish twitter handle as well? A few days back I got this opportunity. Atwitter contest was organised by Audi (Twitter handle: @AudiIN ) and...
The saga of an unruly strand of hair
I am a strand of hair I’m young and I don’t care For all the worrisome words That my elders share! I am a strand of hair. Yes, let’s call this strand of hair Rickie! Rickie is indeed like any other teenager you see around you. He is bindaas, jhampak, rangeela, mast-kalander… give him any...
Twelve hours away from insanity
‘My college routine is making me insane. I need a break,’ said Specky. This one simple sentence led us into the heart of Spiti that we fondly remember now as being twelve hours away from insanity! Yes, we did a fair degree of research before we decided on Kaza as the place which would quite...
Cricket connects!
Can you see a bat in the picture? No. Do you see anyone playing a game? No. And yet, everyone in India would know that these players are cricketers… and that they are the famous CSK team! This is the power of cricket!! Would the same level of recognition be there if someone were to...
I wouldn’t want you to miss this…
Yes, I wouldn’t want you to miss the opportunity to vote for my story-idea submitted for the indiblogger-HarperCollins short-story contest! Click on this link: Vote for Arvind Passey’s story (For those who don’t want to click on a link, you can copy this URL and paste on a new tab in your browser and then...
