Author: Vivek Shanbhag
They seem to know – someone who simply sits there for so long must have a thousand wheels spinning in his head. And they know those spinning wheels will not let a person be. Eventually,
They seem to know – someone who simply sits there for so long must have a thousand wheels spinning in his head. And they know those spinning wheels will not let a person be.
Now, let me not give the impression here that I believe in the supernatural – I don’t. But then, neither do I go hunting for a rational basis for everything that happens.
Had Vincent taken on a grand name and grown a long shimmering beard, he’d have had lakhs of people falling at his feet. How different are the
Had Vincent taken on a grand name and grown a long shimmering beard, he’d have had lakhs of people falling at his feet.
Words after all are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.
It wasn’t about the tea or the key: the last strands of a relationship can break from a single glance or a moment of silence.
On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.
We once went nearly a year without replacing our pressure cooker because of an unfounded rumour about what was to be given in the conference.
The result was that we simply did not desire what we couldn’t afford. When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.
Amma lit the kerosene stove, not the gas. She had already begun to economize.
Malati had always been unstable – a pile of gunpowder waiting to go off.
Appa’s hold on the rest of us slipped. And to be honest, we lost hold of ourselves too.
Perhaps her vision of an ideal life lacked room for hard work.
confidences. Lying alone in my room, I sometimes wondered if Malati’s happiness would have been better served had Sona Masala not existed at all.
Lying alone in my room, I sometimes wondered if Malati’s happiness would have been better served had Sona Masala not existed at all.