Toasting Mumbai

Posted on 25 Jun 2012 under Random

When I landed in Mumbai on Friday night, and had to look for an auto, I realised why I hate Mumbai. That constant sense of having to strive to get through each day, the little fights you need to have with the auto-drivers or taxi-drivers to get them to take you to where you want [...]


Dear Gurdit,

Posted on 19 Jun 2012 under Random

The world is a big, bad place. And there’s squat you can do about it. I know at times you feel like a little boy, but that’s ok, because I do too. I know a lot of times, you wonder what’s the point of living? Everyone and everything will let you down, at some point, [...]


I used to write

Posted on 15 Jun 2012 under Random

I find myself asking, “What’s the point of language, if you cannot write?” When I was about to start this post, I was about to do so the exact same way I’ve started millions of other posts… It’s 9:55 am on a cloudy summer morning … Oh, what a cliché, and how so very typical [...]


Grey

Posted on 11 Jun 2012 under Random

It’s 8:35 am on an overcast morning in the summer—the kind of morning in which the grey clouds are greeted by the grey smoke rising out of the embers of burnt garbage nearby. Almost half of June has gone already, and I wonder when the change will come. I am parched, like the earth, from [...]