Born Spectator

The forecast on the phone says, “rain throughout the day”. It’s perhaps ten in the morning, maybe eleven; I am happy about not being on a ...

(Photo Courtesy Wikimedia Commons ) A few months before my thirtieth birthday , I was cycling with two strangers at Formentera: a pri...

The cat jumped out with a sputter. Perhaps it was getting stuffy inside the basement. The stolid midnight air on the sidewalk arduously st...

"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...

I do not know when it happened, or, at least, happened for the rest of the world that is always out there judging me as a person, and unso...

"Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher Verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen" (That was but a prelude; where th...