Forces Request

This post is about the Indian Armed Forces. But it’s not about the great task of guarding the motherland or the hardships and bloodshed of battlefields. It’s not even about the romanticized image of an armed professional or about the ceaseless tussles with our miscreant neighbors. With all due respect to and understanding for the [...]

Gobbledygook Part 2

Eeyyuuu Oh ho O O O!
System hangs; once again the virtual memory is low
Recycle bin farts while temporary files overflow
Mind is blocked, bandwidth is clogged
Connection timed out, where the hell is F5 lost!
Tech support says purge the idle din but I can’t say no!
Ctrl+Alt+Del … Restart! Let me go!

Love Story

It was during the vacations of class XIth when I made friends with Bunny. I was staying over with my cousins and that’s where he used to reside. We struck an instant chemistry and became very good friends. My cousin used to tease me that he seems to have a crush on me. Their remarks [...]

Friends in Leh

Tourism is about sight seeing; While travel is about people and places.
A tourist visits and a traveler connects.
With a stroke of luck I got the opportunity to travel to the land of many passes…Ladakh. “La” means “Pass” in English while “Dakh” means “Land”; as learnt from a tourist guide Snyin. I met Snyin while hanging [...]

Gobbledygook Part 1

Cavity in my heart and dandruff in my tummy
Oh! This pencil is so very yummy
Mangoes are ripe and the cat is chummy
Playing in the mud, wriggle-jiggle, splash-thrash, gooey-gooey gummy
Fanning with the manual she calls him scummy
Speed up and overtake that out of focus bummy
Stamping the dance floor while leopards play rummy
Shut up and behold my [...]

Just Friends

Yesterday while driving back home I had a brief but interesting encounter with a stranger on a traffic light. The signal had just turned red as I stopped next to a car parked on the side of the road. The car had its hazard lights on. He was sitting alone inside the car and was [...]