Morning Irritation

The lady teacher yells at the students in college, “Where are your IDs? Why aren’t you wearing it? If I see you again without your IDs, I will make sure…” She tapers off. Three students, two of them top-knots, more surprised than scared, rumbles through their backpacks before running in the direction of their class.

Then, the lady teacher spots the back of a student, far away. She squints and puts on her specks. When she brings down her specks back to her breasts, she sighs for not finding the one she would have liked to find.

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Habit Conundrum

Every time he drives past me on his (probably his wife/daughter’s) scooty, which looks like a toy under his robust frame and flabbiness around his belly (the scooty company should sue him just for the sake taking over feminine gender’s property), which he seemed to be forcing rather than riding it. For the brakes, he coughs rather than pressing horns, as if riding his old bicycle, and to drags his feet on the ground when he wants to bring it to a halt.  

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Lesson on Patience

My owner’s wife dries the green chilies on the roof and comes to check on once every of couple of days.

Her only worry, she confesses as she picks and turns the drying chilies, is the squirrels and birds.

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Silence of Betrayal

She urged him to meet her once.

He said, “We shouldn’t.” 

She asked, “Why shouldn’t we?” 

He resisted, “Did you forget what happened last time?”

She replied, “Toady, I’m calling a father to meet his dying son.”

For long time, he remained silent on the cellphone.

He wondered how would he console his close friend.

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The Chair Demon

My nephew sits on a plastic chair and watches the cartoon serials on TV. In the excitement of cartoons, he falls down from the chair and bursts out crying. Only when I get up and start beating the chair to kick out the mythological demon, similar to Sakatasura, who hid himself inside the cart to kill Krishna, he is pacified.

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Sanitized Literature

The restaurant next to the temple doesn’t cook meat. Reason: the priest or religious crowd may take offense. When Ramayana, Mahabharata and other epics tells the tale of meat eating brahmins, this reason seems regressive. Their food involved wild boar , deer or any type of meat. When I was kid, my brahmin class friends have asked me to buy eggs for them. Similar practice to eat eggs and meat in hideout goes on in villages. Let people know, if one wants to eat meat anything, he or she would do, however much others sanitize the literature. Regarding the restaurant, it doesn’t want to lose this great location and temple doesn’t want to lose customers. So, it’s likely that that both businesses: restaurant and temple must have come to a consensus.

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