This is the best award acceptance speech of the year. “No one becomes an achiever or a star or a legend without the support of teams – both visible and invisible. Some people make your art presentable by polishing it, and there is a fan following that grants you celebrity status. One can create art … Continue reading How Legends are Built
It is a much-loved place. It is a much-hated place. There are no shutters on the main door, but housebreaking is not a risk at all. Those who walk in stay incarcerated till proven innocent. Those who walk out never turn back to see the shabbiness of the place. The supervisor always feels lost. She … Continue reading Jailor
It did not break my heart. He is not our Dad, as Mom tells us today. But a father, whether biological or not, could not have been better. Hats off to you, Dad! You are the only one we know, and the best one. It is a heartwarming moment to know that love of this … Continue reading Heart-warming
“Damn it,” she thought, as the heel on her shoe snapped clean off the sole. She had forgotten to keep an alternate pair in the car. She walked barefoot with difficulty till she found a shoe shop. The new pair she chose was flat and did not exactly match her outfit, but she couldn’t attend … Continue reading Ice-breaker
She was in a place where her clothes of light and reflections were all dropping off. She looked at the mirror from different angles hoping to catch a better view of herself, but the images felt like a conspiracy against her proven supremacy. Gradually, the music stopped and she heard her own hoarse voice – … Continue reading Continuity of Illusions
Happiness lives somewhere under the white roof in green fields of regeneration. I hope recycling transforms shapes but retains the purity of the core. How does one define joy? A moment of exhilaration, trust and pleasure creating awareness of the privilege of existence. Decades ago, it was a smile. Now it is a smiley. We … Continue reading Back Home
“It’s only your interpretation. We don’t hate you.” Someone tries to calm the agitated woman. “You don’t …. But you expect me to be like you for acceptance with open arms. And that is not going to happen. Neither am I born like you nor will I make any effort to be there.” Silence follows. … Continue reading Ostracised
“Haven’t we done this word before?”, screams the disciple, “there’s a whole damn dictionary with 2,73,000 words to try.” “I wish you a successful career being a web crawler scanning words or an AI tool internalizing all that you read”, says the teacher as she engages in her newfound passion for experimenting with web tools, … Continue reading Free Flow
Water boils in search of meat to become a broth. The journalist’s imagination becomes an itch. Will he find a story to metamorphose into an article? The girl walking alone on a desolate street, the vendor hawking fake goods, the couple recording a Reel in the hope of going viral – do they know someone … Continue reading Fodder
It takes courage to stand alone. It takes time to accept that you may be shunned by a community for being different. There is someone out there pouring venom because you dare to reach out for something they did not think about. It takes protective armor to keep the sarcasm from damaging you. Uniqueness is … Continue reading Uniqueness
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