Of Festivals,Religions and Neighbors
Our faiths were miles apart but our houses shared walls. Our little residential colony –housing provided by the Indian Institute of Technology, India, my dad’s employer—was a potpourri of prominent… Read more »
Monthly Archives: June 2017
I will never know
She circled tirelessly, hauling in grass and mud. I quietly watched it grow. Every day, when she was out, I picked up the strewn grass and scraped the sticky droppings… Read more »
I don’t want to know(Free Verse)
It’s past six My texts go unanswered Calls slither to voicemail I glance again at the clock Moving faster than normal? Shushing my heartbeat I start kneading the dough My… Read more »
Thumbprints
All his life, he secured his prized pen collection, not his money, under lock and key. His penmanship could shame printers; his signature was inimitably artful. Today, translucence coats her… Read more »
Did she get it right?
Her mother-in-law taught her the recipe—onions, spices, yogurt simmered together with chicken until their essence seeped deep into the meat. She cooked the curry for fifty years. He hovered around… Read more »