On a rather cold summer night, I was at Shimla’s bus stand to receive a distant uncle. He was supposed to have arrived an hour earlier, but his bus had had a…
Serenity
It is a place overlooking a valley, a place with sunshine aplenty; it is a moment sans thought, a moment where the mind is still; it is where future matters not, where…
A small list of privacy tools
Confused about the tiff between the GoI and Twitter/Whatsapp? Thinking of picking a side? Well, you shouldn’t worry about it; because doesn’t matter which one you pick, or which one of them…
Tripti – An Excerpt
A small scene from a novel that I am currently working on. CHAPTER 10 # It was a dark night. Tripti looked around, and even though she had been sitting on a…
Bhagavad Gita as it is by Swami Parbhupada – A Book Review
Disclaimer The review I am posting is of the translation, not of Gita itself. This disclaimer is mandatory because the one thing that religious people love more than claiming that they are…
Last Tears
She stares into the sea with pearls, In her eyes, the empty gaze, it pierces me. Wind blowing her fallow curls, All she wishes it to be free. For the time…
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Short Review TLDR version Great book. Requires a little grind while getting through. Contains romance, mystery, and aliens. Overall Rating Avoid | Meh | Good | Great | Awesome Reading Effort/Difficulty None…
Despair
Something today made me think of despair, and how helpless we are when it comes to helping someone get over it. Whenever we see someone in pain, our first reaction is to…
Good Citizen
“O my brother in arms, open your heart, to what I say, it concerns your best, Follow these words, and be not afraid, they will put your soul to eternal rest. …
That One Conversation
Clear, windless night; Stars, masked by city lights; Things I said, Things you did not. Music, just above a whisper, Silence that followed; Notes I heard, Notes you did not. That one…