Published works

Posted by | September 30, 2016
The crystallisation of a CULTure

When a group of individuals have a common view of life, adhere to a common set of values and choose a common standard of behaviour, it is said to be...

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Posted by | August 31, 2016
In just a day…

As a child I would accompany my parents on their shooting trips every opportunity I got. We would travel by bullock carts in a remote hot village one day only...

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Posted by | August 25, 2016
My Krishna

I was nine years old. I saw my dad sitting at our ancestral desk writing a letter. Curiously I peeped over his shoulder to ask ‘who are writing this to?’...

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Posted by | May 31, 2016
Through Loving You…

A sea of beautiful big eyes looked into mine. They were all eager and waiting to hear what I had to say and also to share a trillion thoughts running...

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Posted by | April 30, 2016
Is everything OK?

That is one statement that sends shivers down my spine. You see it almost always is from people who don’t want it to be ok for, those who care know...

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Posted by | April 18, 2016
Oscar, Nobel, Olympics

I always wanted to win an Oscar. You see, with the amount of theatrics and drama I loved to incorporate in daily life as a child, it is no great...

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Posted by | March 31, 2016
The interview

I was nervous. What if I was not good enough? What if he chose someone else for the job? What if others were better than me? I hardly slept the...

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Posted by | February 28, 2016
In a state of war

It was time for his prayers. The fakir gently rolled his prayer mat on the curb near the park and kneeled down. Just as he was closing his eyes he...

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Posted by | January 31, 2016
God, is that really you?

I was about seventeen. It was a family wedding and I was incharge of the gifts. Amidst the months of planning, weeks of scheduling, days of preparing and tons of...

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Posted by | December 31, 2015
Polar Opposites

Intellectually we understand that every thing is a pair of opposites - life and death, inside and outside, matter and anti-matter, hot and cold, pain and pleasure. Religion screams -learn...

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