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- Fiction: Little Lizard
She pushed down the insect repellent knob and poison showered on the gecko. The reptile scuttled across the floor and...
- Time Passing Me By
Couple of days ago we found our old honeymoon snaps. Next year, come April, it will be ten years to...
- The Common Shame Games of India
A couple of days ago a friend of mine spoke about finding human excrement all over her new two crore...
- Where Are The Feel Good Female Magazines?
A couple of days ago I flipped through the recent issue of Femina and found myself at sea. There was...
- Learning Art
I always wanted to learn how to draw and color. Tell that to a child and he will give you...
- Eat, Pray And Shit The Indian Way
We live in times of quiet desperation and yet find reasons to laugh. That's what India is all about. I...
- Why We Will Never Let Kashmir Go
15th August is round the corner and flags are waving. India is the largest democracy in the world and people...
- Garden Talk
Our garden has suffered a lot of neglect in recent months but whenever the weeds and the grass seemed to...
- Chaotic Bangalore Roads, Jackass Drivers, Inept Governments
This afternoon a cyclist rammed into the back of my car on the left side and when I stopped the...
- Fiction: Cherries
He watched her melt down the pole on a sensual beat. Her movements were slow, her gaze glacial and her...
- Delhi In Soaring Temperatures
Armed with umbrellas and chilled water flasks we decided to go to our local haunt, Khan Market, for some retail...
- To Be A Girl
"Mama, when are you getting my ears pierced?" Intense eyes looked into mine and I sighed. "Soon! Next weekend probably."...
- Ajmal Kasab And Faisal Shahzad - Double FaultsWhy would an educated man with a good job and a family plant a car bomb in Times Square? The...
- Gay Trawl
There are numerous gay blogs floating on the Internet and like most sites sifting the gold from the dust is...
- Nobody Cares About The Tribals or Our Jawans
The war between the Naxals and the government of India looks like an 80s film script where the browbeaten common...
- Ayesha, Sania, And Dhokha
The Shoaib-Ayesha marriage fiasco finally came to an end today when the two warring factions signed divorce papers. Shoaib...
- Fiction: Mundane Living And Forgotten Deeds
Rubber like locks on doors work generally but once a thief or a sperm decide to make an entry there...
- Pint-Sized Shysters
People don't wake up one fine day and decide they will be obnoxious. It starts from the diaper stage. There...
- Fiction: DustStrange shadows beckon my vision and things that move insidiously in darkened corners leak fear in my heart. The bed...
- Fiction: Misery - Past And Present
The blades of the scorched grass glistened with a steady hot stream of piss and before the vinegar smell could...
- Fiction: Tryst With A God
The rosy cheeked cherub grinned at her. She stared back at him. No owl hooted, no wind woo wooed against...
- Kensei, Our Warrior Cat
He was a gorgeous cat. People used to think he was a little lion living amongst us. He had bit...
- Book Review: Victoria And Abdul
Shrabani Basu's book Victoria and Abdul takes us into a world of love, companionship, untamed ambition, colonial grandeur, petty human...
- Travel Review: Bheemeshwari Fishing Camp, Cauvery
Last weekend we wanted to get away from the city for a short trip and living in Bangalore makes such...
- Game Review: Farmville
I was anti-Facebook for a pretty long time and sometime back deactivated my account as well. I found it to...
- Haagen-Dazs Not Allowed in India
Indian netizens are in a tizzy although the rest of urban India has yet to catch up on the news....
- Politics - Pigs At The Trough
If we were told that Azim Premji or Narayana Murthy spent Rs. 13 crores on themselves what would we say?...
- Illness, Morbid Thoughts and Lack Of Sun
Last week I fell sick and then was deprived of cable and Internet as well. The landline was dead and...
- When Dyscalculia Strikes
I stood at the ATM machine and fumbled. I had forgotten the numbers. There was a dude talking away on...
- Memories of Medinapur
Medinapur made news recently when Inspector Attendranth Dutta was set loose by the Maoists in exchange for the tribal women...
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