Summing up 2016

It only takes one person to change your life: YOU !! - Ruth Casey When I assessed year 2015 in my last year’s post , I perhaps for the fi...

Mine !!

The wind was whistling at the windows. It was cold outside and dark inside the room. There had been a storm earlier and it had disrupted the...

The Last Straw

It wasn’t really the last straw that did it; it was all of the other straws that were piled on before that. - Kimberley Jonas What happen...

The Symphony

Visiting an old memory is like trying to pick a piece of broken mirror from the floor... the reflection is never perfect and there is alway...

Test Your Tear Ducts

This probably has been posted on various blogs and sites before and I have read it a couple of times too. What is interesting is that this...

Because…

“Why would you want to be with me at all? I am not really worth all the effort. I have no prospects, no chances of making it any farther tha...

The Purple Haze

She smiled, even when she didn’t feel like. Her head felt lighter, her mind weightless but she gulped hard. There was a lump in her throat t...

Under the Winter Moon…

The night watches with bated breath as the winter moon claims the sky. The stars shun away and recede in corners as the moonlight extends it...

The Labyrinth

The inner core of our beings is a labyrinth. The entry is always restricted and meant only for a selected, deserving few. Who you allow in t...

The Universe Conspires…

They had waited a thousand years and several births to get to this life, yet they faltered again when it mattered. They only wanted to walk ...

Letting Go…

Pick up the pieces of your shattered dreams and grind this detritus fine. Cry all you want in one go and use the water to knead this dust. ...

The Blind Spot

It was only apt that we met today at a place where cultures mixed their earthen colors into a rustic splash under the shades of a grand, old...

Asphyxiation

The noise within, returns sooner than I thought it would. I have no means to muffle it anymore. It began as a feeble static and has risen to...

Things You Learn at Work–7

Performance Appraisals Explained !!!

Things You Learn at Work–6

People work for money. Money helps pay bills. Paid bills keep oneself sane.

Samsara

He spent a larger part of his day glued to his computer screen, working alone in the darkness at odd hours as his job demanded. He was good ...

A piece of land…

“When I die, plant a tree and put my name on it” she said. “Who’d let me do it?” He asked “Then do it without putting my name on it” she i...

Reap the Songs…

I will till the barren piece of my soul, ploughing the dreams and turning over the Earth within. I will harrow it with the burden of expecta...

The Perfect Child

“There is only one perfect child in this world…and every mother has it”. 17 hours had passed before she opened her eyes. There were tubes i...

The Melted Crayons Project #1

I spend time on Pinterest regularly and like most parents of a schol going kid, one of the things that I have been pinning is random art and...

Things You Learn at Work–5

Hard work never killed anyone…but why take a chance !!!

Things You Learn at Work - 4

And don’t we all know someone or the other at work, who can’t just get over himself. The picture says it all…

Foodie Files–Chicken Old Monk

This one is a confluence of flavors in your wok and a celebration of the Old Monk fandom. A humble recipe which is low on technique (which m...

Foodies Files– The 20 Minutes Creamy Coconut Chicken

The first time I cooked this, it was for adding some basic flavors to a simple boiled chicken dish to make it more palatable. The little exp...

Things You Learn at Work - 3

The universal art of dealing with a superior’s mediocrity…

The Shadows We Cast…

We are neither as tall, nor as short as the shadows we cast… I have always tried to keep my perceptions and decisions about people and my...

The Cancer of Words

“Taste your words before you spit them out” Later that evening, as the moon hid behind a blanket of dark clouds and the rains lashed the wi...

The Lone Flower…

In a garden forgotten by time, by a crooked corner where a little rusty fountain stood looking at a gate from where no one came anymore, a f...