Wednesday, March 16, 2016

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

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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...

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Chistmas Special: A Portrait from the Past

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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...

Monday, November 16, 2015

Thoughts on the Bataclan concert, Paris.

Posted by 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...

Monday, July 20, 2015

The enviable pleasure of realizing the beauty of thoughts

Posted by 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...

Friday, July 10, 2015

The Induction

Posted by 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...

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

The Biker Who Could Bend Time

Posted by 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...

Sunday, April 19, 2015

How to Read a Book 101

Posted by 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....

Monday, April 13, 2015

#NetNeutrality - Short and Simply Put

Posted by 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...

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Mr Smith

Posted by 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. &#...

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Sleep Paralysis Afternoon

Posted by 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...

Thursday, October 23, 2014

I Dodged a Rocket and Survived to Talk About It!

Posted by 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...

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

A List of Songs with great 'Goosebumps Factor' !

Posted by 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...

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Sleeping as a Job

Posted by 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...

Sunday, September 21, 2014

The Late-Night Shift

Posted by 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 ...

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Movie Review: Finding Fanny

Posted by 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...

Monday, September 8, 2014

Conversations Under Low Light

Posted by at 2:10 AM
"Could you turn out the lights? " "I will,  if you ask me nicely. " "Haha sure. Turn out the lights." &qu...
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