TPR Live-blog #1: Reading 'First Brush on the Canvas'

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 7:16 PM

A superb anthology by a group of my friends came out last year. I am going to live-blog the stories submitted by these friends , as they sh...

Chistmas Special: A Portrait from the Past

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 11:10 PM

The family portrait was taken a year back, as he looked at it for a while. Sally had his eyes, while Tom was everything he found attractive...

Thoughts on the Bataclan concert, Paris.

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 1:34 AM

Reading about world news is an interesting process. The sense of people living around the world just like us, with their own sets of stori...

The enviable pleasure of realizing the beauty of thoughts

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 4:19 AM

When I took the condensed milk can out of the fridge, it was mostly to satiate my hunger, as it was 2am of a Monday, and I was trying to av...

The Induction

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 7:15 PM

She parked her car hurriedly, almost hitting the pole nearby. Getting out of the car, she could see the beastly flyer of Dr Ryan's Clin...

The Biker Who Could Bend Time

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 9:15 PM

A cloudy weather on a weekend meant Auro would be surely taking his fabled sports bike out that morning. Auro had bought it entirely with h...

How to Read a Book 101

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 6:58 PM

How to read a book? Pretty simple. All you require is some free time, ability to stay awake for longer periods and of course, hehe, a book....

#NetNeutrality - Short and Simply Put

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 10:50 PM

A lot of buzz being generated about #NetNeutrality wherever I go, online or offline. So much so that I have copied the term 'NetNeutral...

Mr Smith

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 6:09 PM

The flight landed amidst a foggy runway. Everybody peered out, waiting to leave the plane. Mr Smith checked his watch. 10 minutes early. ...

Sleep Paralysis Afternoon

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 12:54 AM

It had been a rough week for him at work , stretching beyond the normal office hours , swigs of coffee going in like his body constituted o...

I Dodged a Rocket and Survived to Talk About It!

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 8:09 PM

After catching the The Judge for the second time in theaters today, I was satisfied that I didn't spend my precious Diwali afternoon wa...

A List of Songs with great 'Goosebumps Factor' !

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 10:35 AM

Listening to music is an essential part of our lives. I think there's more to just easy listening or to listen just while you are doin...

Sleeping as a Job

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 1:25 AM

A year or two ago, I remember a newspaper article about a job that requires you to lie down and do nothing but eat and sleep . It was prob...

The Late-Night Shift

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 12:19 PM

It was getting late. Eyes glued on the screen console, he kept typing with his earphones on. He paused for a sip of coffee before he could ...

Movie Review: Finding Fanny

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 9:06 PM

(please excuse typographical and grammatical errors whatsoever, I kept typing whatever thoughts came to my mind) When I saw the traile...

Conversations Under Low Light

Posted by Soumya Mukherjee at 2:10 AM

"Could you turn out the lights? " "I will,  if you ask me nicely. " "Haha sure. Turn out the lights." ...