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Travels Fiction/Short Stories Experiences Poems Chachu's Column
“Would
he? Or won’t he?” I stared silently.
Waiting. .......more
The
Parting Day
(Voyeur's misfortune)
If I were to define the experience, then I would have been at a loss of words. She was graceful in her movements. The white blouse and an orange skirt she wore .......more
The
Park
(who cares for poor trees!)
And in the new generation, when all sources of entertainment in the colony were pruned or removed, there lay the solitary park. A park that was poorly maintained. A park that had rusted swings. And a park that carried the testimony of a decent, if not glorious, past. .......more
The
Pollution Check
(In India, "sub chalta
hai!")
A man with an amputated hand was manning the center. With some difficulty, he put the machine’s pipe in my car’s exhaust, and tried to start the computer .......more
Reflections
in the Rear View Mirror
(some true and some not
so true anecdotes from my experiences at IIT Kharagpur)
My dhobi who was standing
in the doorway said: "Kapdaa, Babuji."
"Aaj kuch dene nahin hain.
Kal main Kharagpur se jaan raha hoon."
And finally I realized I
had become an Engineer .......more
The
Dead Dream
(the making of the book
"ATM Networks: Concepts and Protocols)
Condemned, as I was, to live under the shadows of the aforementioned words (so near yet so far), I started on a long and treacherous journey- that of writing a book. A journey that would possibly repeat history. A journey that would again, with near certainty, prove to be a failure. And then, all my past failures, together with the new one, would huddle together and cock a snook at me. The reverberations of their boisterous, but ridiculing laughter, could be heard already. “You know you are not that smart. Then, why do you attempt it?” One at the back would shout, “ When will you learn Sumit?” And to sum it all, the wisest of them would remark .......more
Just
Another Night
(the economic divide)
The monsoons
had blessed them,
The holes in
the plastic could tell you that,
Had the gods
tried to flaunt their might,
Or was it natural,
.......more
Should
I Dream?
(Is it really worth taking
all that effort? What about the pain?)
When the burden
of my dreams,
make
me choke,
And my body
shudders
leaving
me .......more
From
Microcosm to Macrocosm
(From microcosm to macrocosm,everything
is nothing,and nothing anything?)
Then, there is a debate,
‘who started the fire’ thy ask?
but the earth is
round,
who can say where it starts and where it ends,
but this does not affect the debate,
‘thou were provoked’ thy still protest .......more
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