Tiny Tales: The Winning Point
A short story about winning (or not). Completely fictional characters but based on my own experiences on the campus festival circuit when I was younger.
The Sabbatical
Since I quit my job a little over six months ago, the one question I keep getting asked is, So what are you doing these days? Interesting isn’t it, how one’s career defines one’s life? At one point of time I used to resent the fact that my I was…
Traveller’s Tales
What are traveller’s tales but our maps to our selves?
The Writer On The Artist Spectrum
I think all artists need an audience. This is everyone from musicians to sculptors to painters. Everyone who has ever expressed an idea in tangible form or otherwise has needed an audience. To those who disagree – if they didn’t, then they’d just keep the idea in their own heads….
First Blood
Last night I was trying to sleep but a stupid mosquito kept buzzing in my ear. This despite the fact that the mosquito repellent is plugged in just above my head. WTF happened to MMR (Mosquito Mortality Rate…I kid you not)??!! So I switched on the light to swat it….
Ideart: Rose Garden
I painted a rose garden.
Twitter Gandhigiri
Come join the charity drive in honour of @tbitch
who suffers deeply from a lack of a sense of humour and originality.
Share a funny joke (not a mean one)
or an original idea with her at @tbitch.
That Kind Of Guy & The Women Who Get Over Him
My friend and I accidentally stumbled onto a kind of male predator when we fell into crosstalk and realised we were talking about the same person.
Rockstar
This was based on a writing exercise on a secret: “Always dreamed of being a lead guitarist and performing with Sting”. So I tapped my inner Rockstar.
Guilt-Reading
I hate it when writers pull stunts like that, making a book sound like something else in its title. I only bought it because the blurb described it as the male ‘Sex And The City’.