Monthly Archives: August 2012

My Lover’s Breath

Inspired by Diana Ackerman’s phenomenal work, ‘A Natural History of the Senses,’ the writer takes a trip down literature after an aroma. Imagine you wake up in a jungle. Think all the trappings of civilization gone: the sky-scrapers, the macadamized roads, the suave, the technical and the sophisticated. (You can’t brush such possibility off with a dismissive smile. Instances are countless in the long history of earth where the advancement of many a species in the world was thrown haphazard … Continue reading

Freekick Classic: The Battura Nightmare

The week-long Classic Freekick Fiesta comes to an end today with this story published at yentha on March 1, 2011. Here the writer  shares with us another horrible experience he had in a restaurant in the city. Don’t brush it aside or laugh it away as a one-off experience; it can happen to you next time. There it was, lying on the ground, dead, defenseless, but waiting for its moment of resurrection. The triangle – formed by me, the hotel … Continue reading

Freekick Classic: Suddenly Married

Statutory warning: Many readers stopped eating beef curry after reading this freakish, sorry Freekick piece, first published at yentha.com. So if you are an avid beefarian read with caution. Don’t visualize too much. And if you are having beef curry as you read this story stop right now. Either eating or reading this. “No, I don’t want it, you eat man.” I pushed my plate of red hot beef curry towards him and mumbled in a wretched voice. “I don’t … Continue reading

Classic Freekick: With Friends Like Me Who Needs Enemies?

Published in yentha.com on May 19, 2010, the tale ‘With Friends Like Me Who Needs Enemies?’ is perhaps the most popular of the writer’s Freekicks. Even after 2 years the story is still doing rounds among the Freekick fans. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Have I been a good friend to the pals around me? Er…mmm…I think yes…. yes if you don’t ask me about Narayanan sir. There i erred a bit. A poor lack of judgement, … Continue reading