About dreams and discouragement — “You are not going to make it. You are mediocre. Your dreams are not for people like you.” said the cop. “You can’t win. Winning is called winning because of losers.” he walked to and for in front of the prison grill. His tall body cast an elongated shadow that…

She sucked on the tip of her thread and twirled it as she pulled it out of her mouth, to stiffen it. She had been that thread all her life: the thread bestowed with the impossible feat of slipping into the thin needle's eye. And her life was a different…

My answers were lies, — It was a bad day at work. Not an unusual day, but a day that made the fantasy of an escape seem all the more desirable, and all the more unachievable. The drive back home was nothing special, it was just another weekday where father time would chase herds of…

Families of War — “What happens after death mama?” asked the youngest, the baby of the family. They were fleeing the war at the last minute, all four of them, the mother, the father, the eldest and the youngest. Why last minute? You should ask the father that. His reason, in the beginning, was…

Modern Men, Wars, Dignity, Heroism and Freedom — This is the story of brothers, twins, from the part of the world where all men between the ages of 16 to 60 were forced to stay back from fleeing the war and fight for their land. Though staying back and fighting seems the obvious right thing to do, the…

Analysing the importance given to the Russian-Ukraine war — The statements below were made on NEWS networks reporting the recent Russian invasion. How do the following lines sound to you? “This isn’t a place like Afghanistan or Iraq….This is a relatively civilised, relatively European city where you wouldn't expect that to, or hope that it is going to happen”…

Though I don’t get paid for it — I am an Indian by ethnicity, a Kiwi resident by law(My bank accounts, taxes, all of it, my base is New Zealand)and a vagabond by birth, currently drifting around eastern Europe. I have over a hundred followers and I try to write regularly. …

Man is not a rational animal, but a rationalising one. — Robert Heinlein — The engineer unrolled a sheet as tall as him across the floor to reveal the plan he had been working on all this while. Million Year Growth was his name. His parents named him that he says, so don’t ask me anymore about why a stupid name. …

Performing a “Man” — “Honey, is my lunch ready?” asked the man. It was a Monday morning and he was a real man, a man’s man. Two sizzling sunny side ups on his plate shook like jelly as he took a strip of bacon and crunched on it. “Yes, honey. Packing it honey,” the…