Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • Wish list ter santa.

    Hello santa, I am pondering over my wish list for Christmas. This letter is to  Santa Claus who sings and lives in the North Pole  and  not Santa Singh friend of Banta Singh. I knew of your existences when I was a little girl at Manipal. You were there at the church ,giving us gifts…

  • Welcome O-Kenobi

    If I had a Star Wars special edition notebook, how would I use to show my fun side. Well lets first get to know two important things here, one the HP Star Wars special edition Notebook and second my concept of fun. Let me start with the second first, for unless I figure that out,…

  • Traditionally Yours

    Traditionally Yours

    “It is a family tradition” Radhika looked up, every damn thing here seemed to be tradition, which end you eat the mango from to who dices the melon. It was rather irritating.  But guess that was what traditions are all about, the Deshpande family has been thinking, behaving and doing things this particular way, considering…

  • the other…

    In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger’s embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid,…

  • The Discarded Gods

      mornings I am rushing to Vasco, for classes at MES College, but since the drive is beautiful and I belong to generation that has to be 5mnts ahead of appointment I leave home a little early. I get off at chicalim take the local to zuarinagar and walk down. The bus-stop at chicalim used…

  • Who changed me…

    My story by Kamala Das has a statement, “ask the books that I read why change. Ask the authors dead and alive who communicated with me and gave me the courage to be myself.” … Did they? I do not know, I was brought up by parents and grandparents who were voracious readers, membership to…