The Tao of Sanil 8: Getting Born

May 25, 2016 | Sanil & I

After all the hullabaloo and hard work for Sanil’s 10th birthday party was over, and we were lazing about basking in the afterglow of job(s) done well, I asked him (a pretty simple and deserving question, I’d say): “So how did you like them? The first ten years of...

Broken and Lovable

Apr 14, 2016 | Poetry

Do you throw away what is broken? If not from your life then from your heart? Can something be broken yet lovable? Can scars be beautiful?   Scars that life bestows upon Sometimes as grace sometimes as riddle Or perhaps always as grace, sometimes hidden as riddle...

The Tao of Sanil 7: What To Be or Not to Be

Apr 13, 2016 | Sanil & I

“So I have been blessed with this teacher and guide, who decided to be born through me. My son Sanil, 9 now, has always been full of inquiries, observations, deductions and theories… Ever since I can remember and ever since he started communicating, we’ve had these...

Short Story: Manhood

Apr 12, 2016 | Short Story

And here she was again! How he hated this woman… creating a fuss over a few rupees, yelling and shouting even. Whenever he saw her from the distance, Raju knew a lot of time would be wasted. No matter how low a price he quoted, she would haggle as if he had been...

Cracking the Code

Sep 3, 2015 | Living Consciously

There’s one thing I have learnt from my days of programming. Not one thing exactly, if I really sit down to count, but this one thing takes the proverbial cake. I was this green, wide-eyed fresher in the mesmerizing world of software development churning out miracles...