Friends
I don’t know when this became home…. At Kozhikode this week, I kept admiring the beautiful campus, and wondering why they had made rooms with such views, and no hot water! Once outside the campus, I realised how much Bangalore had spoilt me. IIMK was literally nowhere. Now, as
Third person narratives
The crow was flying in a straight line because that is what was expected of it everytime someone uttered that ill-fated phrase "as far as the crow flies." Poor crow. It had an errand to do; it had to reach a Land Far Far Away. Was this crow
Life
Four years in a college, and you'd think that the higher-ups would PAY to see us go. But NO! Our college authorities don't want to give us up without a struggle. So, they have devised the perfect torture plan to make sure that 1 out of
nostalgia
1:30 am, 21st June, 2006. In around 10 hours, I'll be giving the last engineering exam of my life. (If all goes to plan) In 15 hours, I'll have gotten my no-dues and hopefully, my TC from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum, my home away
Family
The fan was creaking in the room; it was the only noise in the silence that had suddenly descended. This was the sort of silence where the participants smiled quick awkward smiles around which never meant anything special. She spent sometime looking up at the rafters of the house. The
Friends
CGPU , the Career Guidance & Placement Unit of the College of Engineering, Trivandrum. The place made of gossamer dreams and concrete walls, the mystical land of opportunity, where students enter quivering and come out into the adult world. We were the proud flag-bearers for the CGPU, the batch of 2002-06.
Arbit
As a young toddler growing up in the green plains and sarson de khet in Punjab, and later in Nizam's land, Hyderabad, I had the habit of cooing "Cho chweeeeet" at anything that caught my fancy. This has led to most of my Dad's