Reels and Feels

My mother always tells me That for a person with OCD, I live like a rat in the subway, With everything around me As messy as it could...

I was the quintessential billionaire Who had zero respect for people, Everything that I was, was the courtesy of My late father, who was...

Madurai: In what seems to be a rather tragic turn of events for a couple residing in P.T. Rajan Road, it has been reported by a certain...

Aim of the Experiment: Dissection Of a Broken Heart Equipment Required: A bruised mind, a handkerchief or a tissue paper, your guilt food,...

One fine day, when I was four, My mother took my sister and me On a bus ride to Mausi's place, Back in 1998, it was a forty minute ride...

In the eternal war between The mother's side of the family, And the father's side of the family, Somehow magically, almost always, It is...

I find it absolutely misleading, And pathetically diabolical On the part of people creating movies Who romanticize the rains to...

A self-proclaimed intellectual will Always negate what people around them Feel about the tiny pleasures of life, Like touching the wings...

I wiped my tears off as The smoke from the dying butt Of the half burnt cigarette Stung my eyes; I suppressed a cough - My third one,...

11/08/1996 In the few pages of books That I had the chance to read Whenever I went to Raddi Chacha's shop To sell the newspapers of our...

All this love, where do I put it down? It feels heavy, like an invisible burden That my soul has been carrying on its back, As if my...

Young, alluring, high-spirited, Persephone was the life, No, the apple of the eyes Of everyone who surrounded her; Everyone, except for...

1) Agape: The highest form of love; On the days when my mother Stayed back home from college, She would be the first one At the gate of...

My father met my mother When he was mighty and thirty, And she was shy and twenty, And like most Indian "marriages", It was decided that...

The elder one of the family was named "Komal", And like her name, she grew up to be soft, But of course, younger siblings always know...

Antebellum, Latin for "Before a war" But before you ask me about it, The war is with myself, within myself, A war that has been brewing...

On yet another night After five consecutive nights Of drowning in a sea of pegs Full of whiskey and vodka And Jager bombs at times, I...

One sheep. Two sheep. Three sheep. Four sheep. Eighteen hundred and twenty three sheep. Wait, what? Where am I? Why do I see sheep all...

3:00 AM: I shouldn't have woken up At such an ungodly hour, But who am I to decide what's ungodly, When some people think I am God...

I had fallen asleep, eventually dreaming of all the fun We would have in the upcoming Obon festival, Thinking of all the crackers we...