David and Jennifer were having problems. I don’t want to plunge into details here. Let’s just say David left mid conversation. It wasn’t the right way to leave. Either he had stopped making sense or Jen was making too much of it. So he traversed his way down the stairs. Scurried through the underground parking[…]
Why did she brush my knee under the table with her hand? Her batting eyelids were distinct even on a dark lit terrace. In that crisp Indian November air; my heart went from frigid to a frantic beating in no time. Even now, I have not understood why she did what she did with a[…]
Like most other great adventures, it was essentially planned out in 15 minutes. A car would be driven, beginning in grey wintery cold Ann Arbor. It would travel great distances to the east and south where it was decidedly warmer and perhaps much nicer. There was of course a vague idea of how large of[…]
Those cheeks, they were nicely caving in, weren’t they? And now they seem to have come back to their rotund appearance. Skip the rice in the evening, play a few more hours of badminton, eliminate the restaurants; Do what you please, I doubt if you can prevent them from filling back in. Just last week,[…]
All he needed was one more point. To win the game, to finish the match. Considering he had come from behind in that game, the momentum was with him entirely. All his serves up till that point were not easily returnable, if not, nicely accurate. His feet felt light. The sweat beads on his forehead[…]
Soon, I shall be hopping on a plane for a land far far away. Not unknown anymore, just plenty away. Soon, I shall be leaving India again. What did three odd weeks here do for me? For starters I had quickly learned that I had best carry at least Rs 2000 before I walk out[…]
Traveling continents always included days of transition. The flux period usually begins when you land and lasts until you had your first breakfast next day. I have been quite fond of these terribly mixed days. Only a day or so ago, I executed such a transition that enlisted two planes over 8000 miles. But this[…]
Our romance, which began brewing with magical beer under mild German Sun and in the company of pink skinned Germans, has now ended with me sitting in my apartment living room alone, indoors, inside the United States. I would be lying if I said that I have stopped thinking of you. You charmed me with[…]
Did someone lose their heaven? If it starts with only a wish, a remote yearn but when its ends up being a real manifestation, the journey of emotions is incomparable. Stelvio Pass, If All End All I have always dreamed of driving on the best roads in the world in a respectable rear wheel drive[…]
Look what you made me do, write a poem for youI have not done this in a long time, for good reasons tooBut spending time with you has created such a stirThat only the abruptness of a verse will do Welcome! You greeted me with a tardy and unrepentant driverAnd declared adamantly that punctuality in[…]