Mr. Bhide has not lost hope.

“Hope is a good thing perhaps best of all things, and good things never die.”- Shawshank Redemption
Mr. Bhide is my next door neighbor. Married with 2 kids, Bhide works as a Senior Clerk in Accounts office where his father worked a few years back. Bhide has his own regrets about his life. One of [...]

10 things I dont like in women

I am writing this because i was made a part of a chain blog  by Tejasee
Though the title says ‘women’ I will make it ‘girls’. I am not yet so familiar with women. I know very few girls though. saying ‘I know’ them is certainly an overstatement. No one can ‘know’ girls. The best way [...]

Sarakati Jaye hai rukh-se

Sarakti jaye hai rukh se naqaab ahista ahista…
Jagjitji’s vibrant voice uttered these lines with such a mastery that I could actually visualize a black naqaab just moving off a beautiful face. It was the recording of a live concert got from youtube.
Gazal is not a type of song, but a type of poetry; not limited [...]

Did Papa murder Rizwanur Ahmed?

 
Dear Papa, hope you don’t misunderstand this, if and when you do read this.
I had always thought it was Papa’s ‘over-protectiveness’ that made him dislike the idea of me talking or befriending any boy. I say ‘boy’ because the first memories of Papa reacting adversely to any male company around me goes back 20 years…
I [...]