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Stared, gazed and then hid, He stopped and walked as I did. Teasing, stalker moon! Pic: Mamatha

When I asked my daughter, studying in Delhi, to visit a good friend of mine during Holi, she fumed in mock anger, "Those Aaptards!...

by Pablo Neruda I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow...

Equipped with  God's view I saw from my window, An abuser luring a child with a pearl. Wow! I'm grown up, thought the little gi...

I discovered the pleasure of walking only after I came to the beautiful campus of IITK. Before that I did go for trekking, cycling and p...

Sketch by  "Puuung"-A korean artist Blame it on my age Or greying hair, Dear Puuung, Our thoughts are nowhere near. ...

I entered the multiplex after a long time. My last was Lunchbox. Thanks to the kind persuasion by a lovely cousin. No matter how much B...

Blogging was in its infancy when I started my blog in 2004. A busy working mom of two school going kids, I had my moments of frustration...

Imagine a person who is a typical drunkard, obnoxious, difficult to live with and sometimes even his parents announce in the newspapers ...

 Photo:  TripAdvisor " Ok", my host Alok told me when after the darshan at Vishwanath and Kal Bhairav Temples, I asked him if we...

Acknowledgements  The urge to preserve the pleasant memories made in Campus School IITK,  culminated in the form of this Coffee ...

When an acquaintance was leaving the neighbourhood (Campus) I hurriedly went to say her goodbye.The things were packed and some books...

Music, apart from being therapeutic is like a hole in the tightly packed sack of nostalgia. Whichever part of the sack you prick, only m...

Answering the doorbell on a hot afternoon can be pleasant only if it is rung by a Flipcart/Amazon boy. He delivered two books written ...

We are caught in the Web World. Here we know strangers, acquaintances, celebrities, international sensations, idols and  favourites as...

Gajak is a sweet  that we eat without feeling guilt as it is a bundle of nutrients. Jaggery a natural sweetener and sesame with ...

I  have seen so many 'New Years' Eves' and birthdays, but none could make me feel a day older. I'm not sentimental abo...

We all get jokes that begin like: * Two gals were playing chess....wait the joke has not completed yet... * Ek baar ek aadmi ki...

A mountain breeze happy, unshackled and ecstatic. Undisturbed and non- disturbing flowing like a river, with an ease ...

Not that my house buzzed with election discussions during 1977 General Election, but we kids had to keep quiet during 8.45 pm news on r...