Published works

Posted by | May 31, 2015
The Becoming…

It was August 27th 2012… Standing on the banks of the Ganges at the Ramakrishna math Belur, I whispered a prayer to my God - “In gratitude for this day......

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Posted by | April 30, 2015
Ashamed or Guilty?

I was in two minds. One said I had betrayed my parents’ faith. The other said I simply don’t care. I was nine years old, attending the fifth grade in...

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Posted by | February 28, 2015
The Perfectionist

  I am a perfectionist. I like things done a specific way and am not too enamoured if it is left half undone. It bothers me - I mean -...

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Posted by | January 31, 2015
The Predator

I could see her grazing peacefully. She had come away from her group, not too far away but enough for me to handle separately. I moved – just an inch....

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Posted by | December 31, 2014
Am I a hypocrite

She stood right in front of me. We had lost the order. As I looked at the paper work it was apparent that it was not a good job. A...

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Posted by | November 11, 2014
The Probability of the Immposible

She looked up into the sky, the vastness was simply breathtaking. The serenity of the moment seemed to extend forever. A distant noise - a bird call or was it...

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Posted by | October 31, 2014
Where is the Shudra in you?

I never understood the caste system as a child. I still don’t. I never realised names had religious connotations. In one of my very early stories as a storyteller, the...

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Posted by | September 30, 2014
Reprogramming my DNA…

Along the way of growing up, we change in large and small ways; we change by our conscious effort and through unconscious thoughts and deeds; we strive to change and...

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Posted by | August 31, 2014
Cooking Life…

Any one who knows me even for a few days know that I am not a willing cook. But many don’t know why… Since April 1980, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale had...

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Posted by | June 30, 2014
Dance happens…

After a series of dance shows celebrating my silver jubilee on stage, in January 2007, as I was climbing down the stairs, my left leg simple gave away! It was...

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