‘It’s so easy to die, isn’t it?’ ‘How so?’ ‘You just step off this pavement and onto the road now, and you’ll see what I’m talking about.’ ‘Hmm.’ ‘You’re actually feet away from death now, you know.’ ‘Well, if you start thinking that way, then we’re always feet away from death. When you stand beside …
Category: My Literary Column
A Second Time
And it was in a rain-drenched garden-shed That I woke to find that I had been dead And the endless string of unfinished things Of broken wishes and incomplete dreams Looked me in the face through my own eyes And I decided that wasted time wasn’t so nice So I got up, …
One Day in the Life of a Politician
He was a tired Indian politician. He had won the elections, and he was coming back home after a press conference with his regular escort of fifteen government cars. As he watched the lights of the city night crawl by outside his window, he focused his mind on his last speech. Nice speech, that one, …
Moment of Truth
The rain poured incessantly, sweeping away the dirt from the city’s much-used and unmaintained roads. Ever so often, a dagger of white would split the western sky in half, and the loud crack of thunder that followed would rumble and roll through the layers of heavy clouds till it lost itself in the eastern sky. …
Goodbye
Three years of my life that will forever light up the rest of it. I was normal once, destined to the path that so many before me had taken, ending up as normal, in normality. I am glad I found you. I am glad you found me. I am glad we were found by each …
One Life 