I tried to rent a 2 BHK in Bengaluru

When you go through hell, the least you can do is warn the ones coming your way. Hello, please walk this way, it will burn a little less. I have learnt the hard way that it’s not a good thing to challenge the universe, in general; or be too sure of anything. Armed with the house-hunting experience […]

I am a plain grey shirt, and this is my story

My name is Will. I am plain, and a slightly darker shade of grey, just like my 2032 brothers. We may all look the same, but our stories can differ vastly, sometimes even when belonging to the same person. But we all start the same – for sale somewhere. The story of every shirt begins […]

The hard truth of my dreams

Mr P is quite an obnoxious person. He’s not bitter; he just acts like a bigger know-it-all than Hermione Granger. For the last year or so, he’s been following me around closely.

That rare moment of feeling accepted

We are all born unique. And though in the beginning all we do is eat, cry and sleep, it is ironic that we are the most unique in our earliest years. There is no concept of society for a baby, and they know exactly what they want, and how to get it : just cry and […]

What Love means to me

Last year, I was telling a couple of friends in a cafe about a woman I’m deeply fond of, and how she had little idea about it. My friends thought I was stupid to hold onto this thought since the woman was seeing someone else. I said,

What school life used to be, and how growing up feels

2001: I am eleven years old, and something has just abruptly ended my dream. The first sound of the morning I hear is my mother’s.

Crowd: A typical weekday

As the sun rises quietly behind the clouds, I wake up with a long yawn, wishing in vain for a little more sleep. A barrage of noise hits me unpleasantly in the face as I open the window for some fresh air

Madurai: Rural reflections

Expectations Our minds have the ability to almost instantly visualize the words we read. Pictures are recalled from memories that have been built with experience and knowledge. ‘Clear blue ocean’ might remind of you a beach you once visited, or a wallpaper. So when I first heard about having to go for a two-week rural […]

From dreaming big to staring at a blank draft

Everyday I read stories on Medium about writers who were completely unknown a few years ago, and now they have an audience. They are well narrated and probably inspire other writers as well. Logically it makes sense, that most of the stories