Teju

November 15, 2011

Warm

Tears welled, but none came out. His heart screamed its silent scream but his body did not respond. The mind wrenched itself out of the subconscious hold which was tearing away at his sanity. He woke up wishing he had never slept. It was an exceptionally bad dream. He woke up with a dry mouth [...]

September 27, 2011

Bugs, Horses and Half-a-thousand

I am a big fan and an erstwhile rider of what was once ‘Buland’ India’s most loved vehicle – Bajaj Chetak This scooter was and still deserves to be a legend. Named after the famed, valiant steed of Maharana Pratap that galloped into the jaws of death in the field of battle, the scooter took [...]

September 3, 2011

Swollen Feet and Happiness

That Girl in The Blue Suit issued, with cloyingly artificial glee, a textbook welcome that can be acknowledged with any amount of seriousness only if you are seated in an aircraft. Welcome to Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Sivaji… the rest, as always was lost to the clatter of people waking up, phones buzzing and the suddenly stifled [...]

August 17, 2011

Wilbur and Orville Wrong

Fate it is said is fond of lemons. Naturally, when I had to go back to Calcutta, lemons, as they usually aren’t, were definitely not on my mind. But a street side lemonade definitely was. As I, tagging my cousin along, walked out of the airport (which was described earlier) and into a darling angel’s [...]

August 8, 2011

Kitna Deti Hai?

Whenever a new vehicle is bought, the question that pops up first is about the mileage. It does not matter if you have purchased a Prius or a Saturn V. The purchase price comes a close, but nevertheless, second. Once the question is dispensed off with, the usual ear-biting and tongue wagging starts. A vehicle, [...]

July 19, 2011

Paid Prostitution

Buying a car is easily one of the biggest, the most tension fraught, and the most important decisions one can manage to ever take. The fact that we have billions of people driving around haphazardly taking pot shots at the environment does not make this decision any less monumental. In fact, the reality that it [...]

May 30, 2011

An Interview that answers all questions

Welcome. It would be very appropriate if there was a lot of ado, because what we are talking about would be what it would have been about in Shakespearean terms. Doing away with all the wordy delays, let us welcome our interviewee – the most exoteric one of all – God And this time around, there [...]

April 20, 2011

Daddy Issues

Thanks to all the advertising and whatnot, whenever humans do away with whatever excuses they have to refrain from having food and generally reproducing with anything fertile finally get down to having sex, there are italians parading their presences in armpits and other bodily crevices generally spoiling the party for the pheromones which already do best which these italians claim to do better and in a more socially acceptable way.

April 9, 2011

How old are you?

That is one question that consistently elicits weird responses. I, like every narcissist, believe that I look younger (much, much younger) than I already am. That is, as far as the body is concerned. My mind however thinks rather differently. In fact, the whole set up is different. I am, in there, an agile, ageless Adonis [...]

March 28, 2011

Gods! Mountains!

A narrow meandering road disappearing around a curve somewhere at the foot of a mountain woollen with trees and shrouded in the orange glow of a fiery evening sun hanging three feet from the mountain, coming level with its summit but losing altitude fast. A late evening last bus, that jars your teeth loose at [...]

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