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Those were simpler times:    When I could see the tip of  the Clock Tower of Dehradun at daytime and twinkling lights of Mussoorie at ...

                                          Anand Bakshi -(1920-2002) Suddenly there was  pin drop silence when a fe...

Today at the workshop I am attending, someone asked me about my children. When I told her about them, She exclaimed, “You look very yo...

A farmer had a  dog who used to sit by the roadside waiting for vehicles to come around. As soon as one came he would run down the roa...

--> “ Confused sperm”! We responded in unison as we saw one of our colleagues  behaving strangely. The reason of our strange ...

After more than three decades, I was at the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Yamuna and Ganga ,in the city of Allahabad. After vi...

Imagine the mornings of a working woman with an infant to care for. She has completed the chores like prepared food, sterilised the...

"Can I change it incase my parents like it"? A teenager asking a salesman.Sounds familiar to me. Before you know, your kid...

Remember Firaaq Gorakhpuri? He hated his wife so much that he refused to see her face even when they lived under the same roof. But that ...

It was like a foreign land for me when I reached Madras around 15 yrs back. Language seemed the only barrier between me and the city where...

Just got out of a hot shower in a December morn ,I reached for a pair of denim and well ironed top/kurta, knowing that I had a lot of run...

Just felt like having a Christmas Tree at home.Didn't have one since my children stopped believing in Santa.Thinking of Dickens' fam...

In the hullabaloo of cosmic Mela It seems that we lose our dear ones and traveling through time we again cross paths.Our brain,though en e...

I believe that a drunkard’s devotion to his deity, to whom he surrenders everything including his senses is unparalleled. Of late I have ...

While watching Prem Rog on TV this afternoon, I thought  of a classmate/friend of mine, Anita Rawat , the great storyteller who narra...

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Suffering from viral, I was admitted to Health Centre. I'm back after two days of home-sickness. Apart from many other friends see who c...

Thanks to the frequent drizzle that made the weather agreeable and to our wonderful hosts to make our trip enjoyable. Throughout my st...