Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • Not My Circus Not My Monkey

    1993 the  fresher’s welcome at the Management department those days included the faculty families, the four of us were sitting quietly watching every one, Rajchechi in a saree of the Dadar Market kind, Nupur in a  salwar kameez of the Chandigarh sector something kind, Geeta with a salwar kurta of the paalika bazaar kind and…

  • No Laughing Matter

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi18e-7o-Xw #LoveAndLaughter activity. “I am going to the crown hotel”  my husband said,”This damn thing is a pain to take out” he continued to mutter, and suddenly both of us burst out laughing. The conversation sounds incoherent right. Well this came from an old conversation where we built a dective story as we watched one…

  • Peek-A-B00

    Peek-A-B00

    Nobody knows that I… She didn’t even want to complete the sentence. After all the best way to keep a secret is to keep it even from your own self. But the truth was she was a nonperson, a shadow, a ghost. She was not really sure that she was a whole person ever… she…

  • Doppelganger Week

    #Fun #Fantastic. Last September I was at Mumbai airport, when someone hailed me, I stopped and looked back. A middle aged gentle man walked up to to me and said, ”Hi Savia” this is not the first time. At the Publishing Next conference, a charming lady walks up to me gives me this very I…

  • Mytwingo

    Mytwingo

    Mytwingo #ImaginativeStory It has been a fantasy.. That I had a twin who was my caretaker, friend, philosopher and guide. She was something like super brain and super girl rolled in one.  I would only inspire her, with “My twin go” war cry. A quiet Saturday evening I am at Carasid, at I sat at…

  • Lighter Moments

    #LoveAndLaughter activity… It was dinner at Dr.Tripati’s place with Dr.Chayya and his wife. “How are you guys going” Dr.Tripati asked us when it was time for us to leave. “By bike” replied my husband “One or two” asked Dr.Tripati “One” replied my husband. That was when Dr.Tripati entered the conversation, “How are you going doctor”…