Born Spectator

“आज ही है। शाम को सात बजे। जाकर तमन्ना पूरी कर लेना।” “तुम्हें कैसे पता बे?” “अमा यार, कहते हैं तो सुना करो। गर्ल्स हौस्टल की गतिविधियो...

“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...

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...