When You Learn Your Maid Is A Post-Graduate

The perennial excuse of our maid after taking an unannounced holiday which has become ever so often now is that she did come in the morning and rang our doorbell but we did not open the door for her. For long both of us who stay in the house have believed this excuse. Not because […]

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A Lady Who Wanted To Take This Teenage Boy To Police Station For Not Obeying Her

Bus rides are joyful experiences. To travel peacefully on a window seat staring quietly at the passerby’s, looking at people on bikes and cars hurrying themselves to reach someplace quicker, buildings by buildings of varying sizes passing like a film via the window glass. And then if you are lucky you meet a nice fellow […]

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Four Short Stories From Rural India On How ‘Mandatory’ Aadhaar Has Wrecked People’s Lives And Left Them Begging For What Was Granted Earlier

If one looks closely, Aadhaar has stripped us of our basic dignity and has also converted us into a flock of sheep that asks no question but only takes orders and moves from one queue to another, every new day. This post isn’t about the innumerable deaths Aadhaar has caused due to it being ‘mandatory’ […]

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The Burn

Okay. I promise I will make this quick and short. A few days back, while getting on to my train, I hugged someone rather in a strange situation. I got the hug which I needed but I couldn’t really hug back how I wanted it to be keeping in mind the slowly starting train and also […]

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When Vegetables Became Hindu And The Goat A Musalman  – Story Of A Family WhatsApp Group That Turned Hostile Over ‘Eid Mubarak’ Wishes

I don’t use Whatsapp much for my own personal reasons. Most of the times it’s uninstalled and when it’s installed I check it few times of the day when I have absolutely nothing else to do; that is, after a round of Twitter, Instagram, Reddit etc. Today as it was Eid, early morning when I […]

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To Be Or Not To Be

“So so bloody sad man!” “Why? What happened? Is everything alright? Tell me quick!” Okay wait, I will tell you what happened. Since two weeks I had my exams going. Yesterday 9AM to 12 noon was the last paper. Memories of two weeks and especially of a day before exam as most of you know […]

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