A Handful Of Grains
“We need to teach our son the value of money”, says the woman to her husband. “He spends all the money we give him on frivolous things”
The father of the boy thinks for a few moments and tells his wife, “Give me a handful of whole grains”. The...
The Fakir And His Message
It was a cloudy day. The time was well past sunrise yet it was dark and gloomy. The old fisherman looked up at the sky, shrugged, picked up his net and walked to the river where his boat was anchored.
As he was getting into the boat he noticed...
Quarantined Arachnid
The Quarantine
Jose Fernandez looked out through the dirty window, peering through his frosted spectacles, looking down at the empty street with only a police car buzzing through every few hours. Jose was not in a prison, he was in New York, in fact in the middle of downtown...
A Father
“I hate this weather. It is too cold. It is cold and dark for half the year”, retorted the Uber driver angrily. And that is how our conversation began.
I asked him where he moved from and he named a war-torn country that is always in the news. I...
The Dream Bike
Little Romi gets up from his bed and starts running towards the porch. He is not fully awake, which is apparent from his faltering gait. His mother sees him, and fearing that he would trip and fall, runs towards him to steady him.
But before she could get close...
The Handshake - A Love Story
Their hands met in a parting handshake. And their eyes met while bidding adieu.
Neither wanted to let go, of the hand or the gaze. They stood holding hands, uttering meaningless formalities.
They met as trainee officers when they were recruited by a bank. They had a few conversations....
The Little Boy And His Doll
The little boy was angry at being scolded by his mother for doing something stupid. He must have had a reason though seemingly silly from an adult’s perspective.
He was standing in the middle of the room clutching a doll. The doll was of a boy wearing clothes resembling...
Serendipity - God's Voice Or Universal Mind
I was at a friend’s home when smoke started emanating from a switch board. I quickly went to the MCB panel trying to figure out which circuit breaker to trip to cut off power supply to the the switch board. As I was trying each breaker, my friend kept telling...
Dog Sense
“Hold up, Stefan”, shouted my dad. Well, I am named after Stefan Edberg, the tennis star. We were out for our morning walk at the not-so-distant Joggers’ Park, a daily ritual. He wanted me to stop. I knew why. It was not that he was not fit enough to keep...
Wise Or Dead ?
Deep in a Cameroonian forest, there lived a stink ant (let’s call him Uno) in a colony of thousands of fellow-ants. One day, when all its neighbors were busy working on their regular chores of gathering and storing food, building new areas of their colony and other such menial tasks,...