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 […]

Many IT companies And Other Industries Are Saying ‘Aadhaar Is Mandatory For Availing Provident Fund’ But Is It? - Here’s What An RTI Reply From EPFO Said

Recently I received a joining letter from a reputed IT company of India which has its headquarters in Bengaluru (or Bangalore). There wasn’t much to the joining letter except mentioning Aadhaar card as the mandatory document for onboarding. Now for people living under rocks, Aadhaar card is a new identity card issued by the government […]

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’ […]

Happy Republic Day Dear Nationalists and Beloved Patriots — Here’s Separate Wishes For You Both

While we display missiles and what not on Republic Day celebrations in Delhi, remember we as a nation with so much apparent greatness couldn’t protect filmmakers from releasing a movie passed by censor board and cleared by Supreme Court, the highest court of land. We also couldn’t stop goons from terrorizing school children. I don’t […]

When A Text From Stranger-Until-This-Moment Warms The Cockles Of One’s Heart

Strange how a hi turns to casual flirting and that flirting turns to being sweet and being sweet turns to wishing we were together, together at this very moment. Strange how people who are far far away from us say hi on social media, dating sites, and things go up. We know there are scarce […]

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 […]

Dear People, The Opposite Sex Likes People Who Shower

Trust me. Nobody likes their date to smell like horse!

I Love You — Can We Fall In Love, Please?

It is crazy how after a hi And crazy exchange of flirting You send that I love you text Everyone after few texts nowadays Is asking if we can fall in love with As if they are asking to put jeans on Or to sign on those dotted lines It doesn’t work like that You […]

What Just-Being-You Feels Like

Without a phone in hand, or a book, or TV With nothing but myself, there I was Sitting under a fan in an empty room That housed no one but me I was looking at the ceiling A crack ran across the wall There was another around the door I sat there looking and tracing […]

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 […]