Born Spectator

“Did you know that cleanliness is next to godliness?” it asked him, hoping to strike a conversation. It knew that the task ahead was arduo...

“Hey, you got a minute?” she called out to him. Her voice seemed raspy from days of non-stop counting, as if they were spent measuring eac...

“Do you have feelings?” she asked. He was a bit perplexed with this seemingly innocuous question: “What do you mean? Everybody has fee...

He looked out to the street swelling with pride. Spring was in the air, rains from the day before could still be felt on the skin, and the...

While the whole world was silent, there was a whirring noise coming from a nondescript corner of the reticent house. All one could see of ...

“You need to take a shower,” she said matter-of-factly. “I had my shower in the morning, and you don’t need to remind me about tomorro...

“Don’t you like me?” asked the voice. He paused, heaved a deep sigh, and attempted to hide the pensiveness in his look. This wasn’t a ...

“Do you see how I spread light in your life?” she said gleefully. “ Tamaso mā jyotirgamaya or whatever, taking you from the darkness to l...

“Why do you treat me like this?” she said irritatingly. “Like what?” he replied with an irreverent shrug, as he continued setting up t...

"Do you realize that this moment, of you and me, in a lustful embrace, is the denouement of a scintillating history of human species ...

As it rose from its pedestal with a distinct sound, the world stood up and took notice. Its expression was almost sombre, and as it ro...

He wanted to set her free. Right now, when the chill in the midnight air and the frigidness of his own heart were stinging him and his sou...

It felt like hell had frozen over and were falling straight on his head. It wasn't the first time he had this feeling. On all such...

शीर्षक अँग्रेज़ी में लिखा क्यूँकि आगे कही जाने वाली बातें प्रेम के संदर्भ में हैं। और कहीं न कहीं प्रेम के संदर्भ में की गई साधारण बातें हि...

In these darkest hours of my existence in the middle of this melancholic night, when the rain outside befalls the putrid leftovers of last ...

राजधानी दिल्ली में हमारा आगमन जीवन के उस पड़ाव पर हुआ, जिसकी व्याख्या "अनिश्चितकाल" नामक संज्ञा देकर मोटे तौर पर की जा सकती है। ...

It was a regular busy evening in the month of August of the year 2006. The city of Bangalore, with its ever snarling traffic and forever ro...

PGP12 is here. And here in 'large' numbers. Welcome to K fachhon. Yeah, it is a dry welcome, for obvious reasons, because I can...

I don’t think I would be surprised if someone comes up to me and throws a statistic which says that 74% of the productive time of a current ...

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” - Elbert Hubbard; The Note Book, 1927 The ...