Of late, an event occurred that disturbed me immensely for it defied logic and try as I may, I was unable to explain the incident in a logical manner. It happened a couple of days back. After lunch (in my bedroom, what with me being quarantined and all), I went to the bathroom to wash [...]
All my delusions of youth were shattered when I took my cousin shopping last time I went home. We went to this really classy place (according to my cousin) and I was busy shopping. However, after a while, I noticed that my cousin was hardly interested in anything and was just standing around, staring at [...]
The earliest memory of conning that I can remember was when a guy approahed me in the train station, asking for help. Still green those days, I lent a concerned ear to his woeful tale. He spun a fantastic tale of how misfortune befell him on his journey and how he ended up without a [...]
Humming loudly to vent some of the happiness bubbling up in me, I entered the elevator and jabbed ’10′. Wordlessly, the doors slid shut and the metal cabin slowly started making its way up the steel corridor. It stopped at floor 4. Someone entered and pressed ’9′. I was too busy humming and celebrating to [...]
An all time favourite true story: “A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston and walk timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President’s outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country Hicks had no [...]
Three Indians. One Vietnamese. One of the strangest conversations of my life. “India?” “Yes! We are from India? Where are you from?” [blank stare] My friend thinks for a moment. “China?” “Ohh.. No no no.. Vietnam..” “Ahhh….” Silence for five minutes.”You computer?” “Yes, we computer.” “Good Good..”, [thumbs-up sign and big smile] Another bout of [...]
It took supreme will power to drag myself out of bed. Transiting from a warm cozy bed to the cold floor was not easy, but with supreme will power, I finally managed to drag myself to the bathroom. A little later, I was dressing up, quite lazily, to go for work. Putting on several layers [...]