(Because I was fed up of the exhortations to date girls who read, write, travel, does handstands while riding a horse, etc.) Date a girl who likes Biryani. Date a girl who doesn’t need to look at t...
Story I wrote for the Saarang Writing Awards 2011 – Facebook Flash Fiction Competition. The story had to fit in 10 lines and the prompt was, ‘When you have nothing left to burn, you hav…...
A question to which most people reading this will answer ‘Down the drain’, I suppose. But no, it’s not the masturbatory habits of the Indian male that elicits this lament from me, but an increas...
Let’s play a game. The game’s called ‘Where did you spend your new year?’ Let’s go clockwise, starting from my left. Home with family? 10 points. Office? -50 points Ba…...
A few weeks ago, in an unguarded moment, I told M that I had the writer’s block. From the array of sarcastic replies you would expect from his Size-40ness, ranging from the moderately cynica…...