My Friend Does Not Want Rekhta To Call Lord Ram as Imam-E-Hind. I Disagree.

A close friend of mine recently posted the following in his story. Do you notice anything odd, does anything trigger you? See if this was coming from a troll on the internet or that nutcase who spews venom every hour on Twitter, I would just ignore it and scroll to the next tweet. This human […]

I Erred Just the Right Amount Today to Find This About Our Beloved Ginger-Tea aka the Humble Adrak-Wali-Chai!

How do you like your tea aka chai? I like mine, depending upon my mood, with a degree of ginger. Sometimes a subtle feel of it and other times a strong hit of it. I usually add ginger to the tea when it has just started to boil and then stir it so it becomes […]

Hamina Bi’s Birthday

A short story about a doting son, his loving mother and the Poverty, their harsh truth. How much it takes from their lives and how much it gives.

Bolt From The Blue - Something Happened Today

Photo by Artem Bali on Unsplash I forgot my red water bottle. Wait, what? You want us to read about you losing your water bottle? No, no, not any bottle but red water bottle with white cap. It’s no ordinary bottle. It’s the one that I take with me to the gym. The one in […]

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 […]

Do Cats Also Practice Patriarchy?

One not so fine day when I was in the hospital taking care of someone dear to my heart, I happened to meet two cats. Actually, there were four of them if my math is right and those bitches didn’t trick me. Okay. Wait. Before I start, let me pause and ask you something important. […]

What Happens When You Ignore The First Mistake

It not only takes your right to question the second occurrence but also opens a cycle that is hard to break. First things are always the first. How lame a sentence, isn’t it? But seriously; Good, bad or ugly, firsts set the precedent and it’s always important to make note of them. When an error, a […]

The Scent, The Parting And Longing That Lives On

Remember when we first met Remember when we embraced each other close That’s when I encountered your scent The one that I have still not forgotten I know we both have traveled long for now Not together but on separate paths But I remember that scent vividly That invigorating feeling it evoked Every night when […]

To Love And Have Sex Is One Thing, To Marry Whole Another

Our society and brain has a thing where it makes you think you are in love when you are not. It forces you into finding that person, to fall in love, propose because that’s what ‘all’ do at this age. You may be comfortable and enjoy someone’s company but partner? That’s whole different stuff. Love […]

Our Cat Is ‘Probably’ Gone But The Guilt I have To Live On…

“Internet to me is all about Cats and Porn.” — Anonymous World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to Reddit recently for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) to celebrate a quarter century of the world wide web (www). In responding to the question, “What was one of the things you never thought the internet would be […]