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
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
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
The writer shares with you how the only 15 minutes of fame he had in his life ended in a lifetime of shame. “Can you see anything?” the eight-year-old boy asked. He was precariously hanging down like a pendulum from the sunshade of a single-storied building in his neighbourhood. Up there on the sunshade, there was his friend Raju, who had successfully climbed up. Raju replied, “No, nothing… there is only darkness inside. Manu, do you think you can climb … Continue reading
