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A Porter Story..!
Normally at a funeral I come prepared to see emotionally drained relatives, unconcerned bystanders and a dead body that looks
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November 27, 2019
Room 104..!
“Which hospital are you taking him to?” I asked the wife of my friend. She told me and as I
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November 26, 2019
26/11-A Night of Terror..!
Rat-a tat-tat-tat-tat-tat, went the machine guns of the terrorists! On that Night of Terror eleven years ago, I was just
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November 25, 2019
Judases Of Maharashtra..!
Even as we, those who support and do not support the BJP look at the nephew and wonder how he
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November 24, 2019
Mama Hear My Cry..!
T’was a few years ago that a short bent old lady climbed up to my office and plonked herself in
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November 23, 2019
The Refiner’s Fire..!
A group of women were praying for one of their friends who though a spiritual and religious person was going
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November 23, 2019
Hide Your Marksheets…!
Many years ago, while doing my undergrad, my professor called me to his room, “With what you write and how
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November 21, 2019
‘I Have A Rottweiler!’ He Said Angrily..!
It was the sound of my gate opening. I rushed out and stopped the young lad from Jio who had
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November 20, 2019
Perfection is Pure-fiction..!
Was hardly two weeks ago, when I’d flown down for the memorial service of a dear friend, that as I
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November 19, 2019
Keep the Fizz Going..!
So often we are excited to begin a new task or project or assignment and we start off with a
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November 18, 2019
You Kissed a Man?
The other day a man was telling me about the number of affairs he’d had after marriage, and as he
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November 17, 2019
Fear and the Mumbai Sea-Link..!
Many decades ago while in my teens I loved taking the double- decker bus from the city, run up the
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November 16, 2019