Why Pretend to like My Food?
A piece inspired by real experience has been published in Issue Two: Culture of The Royal Rose Magazine. Click https://royalrosemagazine.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/royal-rose-second-issue.pdf to read the full piece.
Category: #Nonfiction
The Blue Trunk
This essay first appeared in The Soliloquies Anthology 22.1: No one was allowed to peek inside Father’s beat-up blue trunk, which remained secured with an old, but shiny, brass Godrej… Read more »
Skin Palette
My high school friend and neighbor, Juhi, and her elder sister, Komal Di, had skins the color of milk, so pristine and flawless that I used to think my brown… Read more »
Before Sunrise
I look out the window at the chilly October night in the hilly city of Dehradun, India. An eerie silence pervades the otherwise bustling parking lot of the hospital. It… Read more »
Any Males?
Himalayan Hospital, Dehradun, India “Who is with Siddiqui?”, an irate voice calls out on the microphone. I flinch briefly at the absence of a respectful prefix before my father’s name…. Read more »