Prompt for Aug 5th: Tiny shoes Sara loved shopping for her baby; her favorite haunt was the tiny tots Palace located in the mall close to her house. She spent hours in there almost daily and came back home with…
Dishonor : BarAThon Day 4
Prompt for Aug 4th: Caught red-handed The houses in their village were made of mud and built close to each other, their adjoining roofs separated by only short parapets or steps. It was so safe that even a child could…
Fragile Lives : BarAThon
Today’s prompt at the BarAThon is FRAGILE LIVES and I bring you some mini poems (three lines with seventeen syllables in each short poem) Fragile lives cringe Shatter by the cruel blows Of their kith and kin The…
Diabolical Smile : Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger than fiction I met a girl in the train today and in the 60 odd minutes it took our train to reach the Church gate station from Borivali, we ended up exchanging life stories. Why?… maybe because a stranger…
Intelligent Advertising and Marketing.
From the moment I plonked myself in front of the display screen next to the departure gate at the airport (biding my time until boarding commenced), I was bombarded with a plethora of pictures of unusually/unnaturally fat people and not…
Book Review – The Face At The Window
THE FACE AT THE WINDOW About The Book: What if at the end of one’s life, one realizes that one has lived out a lie? Mrs. McNally, a retired school teacher, living alone in a cottage at the foothills of…
Book Review – Panther
Book Title : Panther Author : Chhimi Tenduf-La Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Harper Collins India; 1 edition (28 July 2015) Language: English ISBN-13: 978-9351772200 About The Book- ‘I see you. Legs like toothpicks, body and face all ribs and…
Book Review – The Dove’s Lament
THE DOVE’S LAMENT About the Book- The Dove’s Lament is a journey that takes you around the world, bringing to life the human side of conflicts that tear people apart. From the genocide in Rwanda, to war-stricken Bosnia, from child…
Book Review – False Ceilings
FALSE CEILINGS Book Title: False Ceilings Author : Amit Sharma Publisher: LiFi Publications Pvt Ltd (1 January 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 9382536892 ISBN-13: 978-9382536895 About The Book- Born in the lush mountains of Dalhousie, Shakuntala is a pampered child…
An Act of Kindness #Gratitude
An act of kindness by a stranger It was an ordinary day. While at the store buying a few grocery items for the weekend, I happened to tell the cashier that I had missed out on getting a bottle of…
Tattooed on My Heart
Your family loves you to heaven and back But they keep their emotions in check I have your name tattooed on my arm While they have vibrantly inked hearts. It was easy for me to wear your name Made…