The Wealth Of Stories – #TodaysTale
Daily stories for wisdom & grace in the form of #TodaysTale
Angst
Conversations with a tree
February In The City – Part 1 When I was a child, my primary school building had a tree growing in the ramshackle courtyard outside. One had to climb a few boulders and avoid the loose stones and holes burrowed in by rodents to reach up. And once one got…
Sept Shorts01: Everyone’s Got A Back-up Plan
I set myself a writing challenge of producing a short story a day, back in May. I didn’t manage to do them all but that exercise did result in 20 short stories, spanning different genres, collectively called the MayShortReads. It was an immensely exciting exercise and I propose to do…
MayShortReads16: Crossing Lines
9:03 a.m. Not a damn auto in sight. And when one turns up, you know it’s going to be a grapple to get him to go to a police station. The furtive look around, the bug-eyed scrutiny as if you might be preparing to report him, for missed red lights,…
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The City and The City-China Mieville: Stunning, Surreal & Sensational
The City and the City by China Miéville My rating: 4 of 5 stars Recommended by: Sumant Srivathsan At one level, there’s a story about two cities that share the same space. Not twin cities, not neighboring cities even, these are two different cities that sit on the same geography….
Life means more
24 hours just never seem to be enough in this city, you know? Every minute, every day feels like you’re running just 10 minutes behind. The one bit I really agreed with this otherwise horrific movie on, was the tightly managed shuffle for space and time. There’s a Rahul (Sharman…