Soliloquy- Saturday Specifics
Image Source: Here I feel relentless waves of sleep lash against me. My body, at present an embodiment of weariness, screams at me, pleading to be permitted to rest. I look around speculatively. My...
View ArticleAt Crossroads – Mid Week Quests
A part of my collection at home Life has it that, it needs to smother us with torrents of sorrows at one time, but to exhilarate us with thickets of joy at the others. Just last week, I was lamenting...
View ArticleMenaka’s Choice- Book Review: Saturday Specifics
I started writing book reviews on this blog around four years back. I remember my grand father gifting me a notebook when I was a little girl, if my memory serves right, exactly eighteen years back,...
View ArticleMindful But Absent – Book Review: Saturday Specifics
The Blurb on the Back Cover: “This is a story about relationships within a family unit and close friends for a happy & enriching life It traces fictional journeys of a few friends from IIM...
View ArticleDoc Diaries #1 – Mid Week Quests
When we met last, I was babbling about my future prospects, the first baby steps of which were to be taken last week and sans hesitation, let me say that it was taken, on a warm note to my relief too....
View ArticleGateway To The Past – Mid Week Quests
There is a small, beautiful, golden glazed, ornamental light fitting that unassumingly adorns the wall of my bedroom. It has been there since the day we moved in here fifteen years back. I remember...
View ArticleExcerpt- Second Chance : Saturday Specifics
So, I thought today I would publish here an excerpt from the manuscript I am working on at present. This would, roughly speaking, be the second or third draft and I feel that I still need to garnish it...
View ArticleOf Bygones And Those Forgotten Treasures- Mid Week Quests
I am coupling today’s Mid Week Quests with a Throw back gesture. This is a post I wrote two years back and I still hold these thoughts close to my heart. I hope the post is worth sharing here one more...
View ArticleSpecial Announcement- Shades Of Life, The Book
Hello, fellow bloggers. With immense pleasure, I announce a very important news today. A short story anthology which carries a story of mine is all set to release on March 23rd. The book is a well...
View ArticleReaping The Hard Way – Doc Life #2: Mid Week Quests
I have loved travelling all my life. My parents had to work in a district around 9 hours from our home till I turned four (if my memory serves me right). Travel had been an inevitable ingredient of my...
View ArticleOf Good Conversations And Birthday gifts- Mid Week Quests
I am forced to keep this post short due to constraints of time, but you wouldn’t mind it as the topic is one that is packed with the sweetest of flavours. Before I proceed, I would like to recall a...
View ArticleThe Year So Far
There are so many things I have been pining to write about. Anyone who would be travelling a lot to work would share similar feelings with me when I say that there are gazillion events scattered...
View ArticleSelf-doubt And The Likes: A Piece Of Me
So I sit down to write and I find myself doubting whether I will be able to churn up a good post or rather, put my thoughts into words most precisely as they fleet through my mind. This is not the...
View ArticlePeep Into The Past – Short Fiction
I gazed longingly at the effervescent girl, who looked back at me from the photograph enclosed in the safe, glittering walls of the exquisite photo frame. I knew what she was thinking while she smiled...
View ArticleDesirable Chaos – The Tale Of A Hectic One Week
Last week was chaotic. Too many things happened in a span of seven days that at one point of time, I felt my head almost reeling out of control, thanks to the multitude of emotions that sprinted...
View ArticleMy Delicious Bait – Mid Week Quests
There are people who, with utter madness, admire talented personalities. I am not saying I don’t admire laudable talents, but I am not excessively, fiercely dependent on them when leading my life....
View ArticleWistful – Short Fiction
The room was garnished with the most luscious of elements. Bright, velvety flowers lay strewn across the neatly made bed, from which emanated the fragrance of splendour and a resident whiff of the...
View ArticleThe Wait – Fiction
It was a quarter to six in the morning. The crimson-tinted rays of the dawn leached in through the thick foliage to rest on his skin. He rubbed his nose onto the hairy dorsum of his palm and let out an...
View ArticleLet Me Write My Heart Out, Please – A Note To Self
Sometimes, to passively glide through a day seems the most daunting of the tasks. Unembellished moments lie scattered on the path; uninspiring thoughts float around like an aimless bottle on the...
View ArticleBetween Right And Wrong – Fiction
The nauseating stench of liquor hit her hard as she neared the rocky terrain to the toddy shop. If her husband had been with her, he would have picked up the smell from half a mile away and would have...
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