Go back 20 years down the memory lane and you would have found Bengaluru as a clean calm city filled with Lal baghs, vidyarthi bhavans, MTRs, bugul rocks and the list goes on, probably no one would have ever imagined in their wildest dreams that a city known as “Garden city of India” would one day become “Land of Opportunities” Technology, agriculture, Research and development, art, theatre,...

She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life. My small life, short one, spanning only eight years. I remember how I used to peep through the flowing yellow curtains of her room, just to catch a glimpse of her, every morning before I went to school. She used to stand close to the mirror, lining her beautiful pear-shaped eyes with strong lines of kohl, which had a mesmerizing effect on...

She was distraught. After all these years, he’d left her. Instinct told her that he’d left her for another woman, perhaps a woman much younger than herself. As she sat at the window of her ground-floor flat, looking out onto the neat, handkerchief garden, a cup of coffee in her hand, her eyes misted over. Memories of the time that they’d spent together kept flitting by. Why had he done it? She...

I’ll go to the place where the colors of the rainbow are million in number and I’ll count each without threat of slumber when everybody i trust lets me down and joy doesn’t know the way to my town when i’m blinded by love and refuse to take caution and watch on as my better-half subtracts her portion when my wealth once abundant vanishes as i remain redundant the moment my future...

When I was little,and everythingI heard was true the adults said God painted the sky blue to them,I was too inquisitive to be seven so when granpa died,they said he’d journeyed to heaven I’d go to jail if I ever stole so i fervently asked for sweets in the toffee-bowl my guardian angel cuddled me to sleep and my soul was the Lord’s to keep unbearable pain awaited me,if I played with...