It could be the entrance of a park attached to some monument or it could be the backyard of some city railway stations. You would see them, scattered all over these places. “Look at these pictures… these replicas… cheap and best†you hear the parrot-like repetitions of these words, though only one in a hundred …
Tag: Of Facts and Fiction
I know not which way I must look…
As you step out of the house, you get a warm welcome (the bone chilling winds at times notwithstanding). The trees which invite you stand in a row, maintaining equidistance between them. You can rest assured of a couple of other things, a pond and those doves and ducks of all sizes. You just forget …
Those Special Days
Apart from festivals, there are several ‘Days’; I mean special days like birthdays, father’s day, mother’s day and so on. In India there are festivals and festivals, commonly celebrated and since there is no dearth of festivals commencing from January to December, we don’t attach undue importance to those ‘days’ mentioned above. Not so in …
Soliloquy
“First, he must get rid of that bitch. Nasty bitch…†I looked back while I was window-shopping in a mall. It was an old woman, picking up certain items from a shelf. On seeing me, she said apologetically, “sorry. I was talking to myselfâ€. I just smiled and focused on window shopping! But she had …
Slow and Steady…
The toughest time for the political leaders in India is during the Assembly elections or the general elections. Not long ago, the assembly elections were not all that tiresome because the issues were limited and, invariably, it was like a see-saw affair. Gone are those days. Now, the assembly elections are as tough and tricky …
A Paradise on earth!
I must have lost my way. It was a sunny day…something rare in these parts of the earth. On such days, one is tempted to wander lonely ‘like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies’. Of course, I was a little away from the city limits but careful enough to mentally note down recognizable …
Old order changeth, yielding place to new!
An Africa chimpanzee had escaped from a zoo in America. The security personnel were alerted and the officers were contacting one another to ascertain the whereabouts of the dangerous guy. At last, one of them spotted him, “I have spotted him. He looks dangerous…and smart too…dressed like humans!†Soon this message was passed on to …
Unite and Save
Be it a wedding or a religious festival or a business conference or an anniversary or a cricket match or any other game for that matter. Eating and drinking [coffee, tea etc] is a part and parcel of these occasions. Then, there is a sort of dress code for all occasions. All these items have …
20-20: Two in one!
It is gone, but still there!
All the hopes of a bright and sunny day vanished when the black clouds appeared from nowhere and made a thick and black curtain out of themselves to block the entry of even a thin ray of the morning sun into the sky below. That is Vancouver. Like a comedian’s oft-repeated joke, the winter is …