Resign
Ria pulls the flying white dupatta to my hair and tilts my smudged forehead to her shoulder. Neel clutches my bare wrists as if detecting a pulse. My strong children…. Read more »
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 »
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 »
The Real Price
In 2004,my husband was assigned to a long-term project in the USA and he asked me to join him so that we could witness the sun rise and set at… Read more »
Rain was different
My sallow eyes watch torrents of rain Lashing the glass windows Of my chic office on the seventeenth floor I can’t hear the tinkling of drops Or the rumbling of… Read more »
Rice Lovers
Paucity of something multiplies the yearning for it, manifold Short or restricted supply is the precursor for ever-growing demands. My love for rice germinated under the draconian rule enforced by… Read more »
Lets stay home
How about we stay home this weekend Some time with you I’d love to spend Years of matrimony evanesced, let’s pretend And once again try to be just good friends… Read more »