

Pigeons traipsed in circles and trilled in distress over smoke-blackened rafters at the ongoing intrusion. We had stopped for lunch at Karumbalai, three kilometres out of Salem, ushered in from…

Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now. Steven Wright (wit, writer, actor)
Time in slow motion
A mat was placed and the lady, tall, dark and easy on the…

The sloth bear had turned in for the night, that too stoned, so it was alright our Gypsy had stalled. I and the tracker returned to announce breathlessly that we…

An Edinburgh party scene (Photo from 10best.com)
The ‘From the Middle East to the Mount Everest’ part is over half way into the book with the climactic final assault of the…

Looking for pusta # three-and-half
Most direction-giving is associated with landmarks. Hence the parlance here changes with topography. While the Metro introduced the ‘pillar’ as a driver marker over a decade…

The metallic clanging from the lathe shop falling oddly in step with the strides on the makeshift catwalk next to it could have been an installation. Then, this is what…

The road to Bir
Dreaming of flying is apparently a sign of good tidings. Though I do not know any dream analyst to verify I will go with it. I have…

I am conscious of flux, of disorder; of annihilation and despair. If this is all, this is worthless. (Virginia Woolf, The Waves)
Drama and cover songs
The Master Plan occupied the centrepiece…

(June 2 is International Sex Workers' Day. This is a prize winning story revolving around the adventures spanning an evening of Donna aka Devi, a fictitious streetwalker based out of…