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…
An idle mind is the devil's workshop (Biblical)
You shall do no work on Sabbath (also Biblical)
Let there be no light
Heritage abounds: The three-domed building
What used to be a water…
Compared to its Mumbai namesake Jinnah House in Delhi has shunned controversy and sits quietly away from public glare, behind man-high baroque iron gates in the middle of an expansive,…
Tracing the largely unseen underwear to the land of its origin is probably the closest to discovery we can make these days. But for New Zealand columnist and travel writer…
Moored for the night
Must have been the tempestuous night I started in the morning to a gentle wake. It took a while to collect my bearings: the thatched roof tapered…
“There is a temple in the centre, around it is a mosque,” said Chotu (‘helper’) pointing through the spiny shrubs that separated the palisaded ASI monument and the reclaimed bog…
There is a saying in Kerala which goes ‘the jasmine in one’s own backyard lacks fragrance.’ A Keralan for forty years, I laid my eyes on it for the first…