Dawood is dead. Really?
Dawood is dead. Really? Review of ‘Dawood is dead’ by Avik Davar Do a Google search for Dawood and you’ll be confronted with more than three hundred thousand pages with assorted facts in .41 seconds! Even Quora and Scoopwoop have been talking about him… so it isn’t as if Dawood is a person who is...
Stories Within Us Wish to Live
NOTE: This story was first published in ‘Open Road Review’ dated 01 August 2015… . My father is 83 and still goes on his morning walks. He is fond of solving Sudoku puzzles and calls up long distance to remind me to get newspaper clippings with these puzzles. ‘We don’t get this newspaper here in...
Got there at last, have you? Review of ‘Checkmate’ by Hrishikesh Joshi
Terrorists must be a happy lot… such a large percent of Indians writing in English seem to be fictionalising what they may be doing or what they may not be doing. With so many thrillers where terror becomes an inherent part of the story, some of these terrorists must surely be looking for fresh plots...
My dream has been killed
What you may never have seen or heard That right above where you see that bird Ghosts from the past come, perch, and watch us. Yesterday one of them spoke a word: ‘Listen!’ And I shut all else and heard A few horrified ghost sounds say: ‘Yes! We know now that once dead we are...
Bilawal’s rant — a limerick
Bilawal’s ridiculous rant means Pakistan has won The race to be the World’s Joke No. One So Rahul dear Need no longer fear As he is replaced by this next gen pun! Arvind Passey 20 September 2014
Politics, confrontation, and the will to serve the nation
The three don’t actually go together. Politicians never confront other politicians with full vigour and we all know it is more like a big show of confrontational drama like the one the forces of India and Pakistan enact at Wagah Border. And we also know how heartfelt the will to serve the nation is in...
A drill without command is an art. Review of ‘A case of exploding mangoes’
Three hundred and seventy-seven pages of perceptive brilliance cannot be easily handled by all writers. Well, most readers too would stumble and fall in their inability to get a firm hold on all the nuances that the pages overturn on you mercilessly. I loved the experience. But then I have my own reasons to love...
Knock! Knock! ‘Osama here. Open the door…’
Knock! Knock! ‘Osama here. Open the door…’ ‘What?’ I thought, ‘Osama Bin Laden?’ I was at that moment reading this tweet by @missletsbuild Julia: “Osama bin dead, Obama bin lying! #osamadead.” I must’ve spoken aloud because the voice from the other side of the door had a ring of urgency to it: ‘Come on. I...
Hey, this match is just a 303, not AK-47!
Thank God we don’t have 47 days in months that go by the name AK or something as sinister as that acronym. Today (the day for the WC 2011 semi-finals between India and Pakistan) is just 30 March which can also be written as 303. So why is the media whipping up mass hysteria for...
Virtual pokes and population explosion!
The internet getting shot down in countries like Pakistan, China, & now Egypt can lead to a massive population explosion with no virtual poking possible! 😉 The power of social networking goes much beyond its byte-boundaries!! © Arvind Passey 28 January 2011 Status update on Facebook
