First Day After a short (and a little boring) talk by the organizers, people started checking into their pre allocated tents when Mr. Bechara Lal (name changed again to protect the of the individual) found that his tent was already occupied by some Australians (non - Nucleites). Mr. Lal was with his wife and 10 months' kid and they had to wait under a tree for 2 hrs till they could finally settle....

I tread water. I'm nowhere. I imagine the water I displace causing an effect somewhere else. Perhaps a ripple on a beach never before set foot on. Or a wave contributing to erode a granite face on an unthinkably minute scale. Maybe just a splash in the eyes of a swimmer.Above the water, there is nothing. Thoughts provide no resistance to uncracked silence or the sterile sky. Below the water is dif...

I guess I first met Old Frank about 20 years ago when he knocked on the door of our farm house seeking any casual work on offer. Infact, I had seen Old Frank a few times before that, as he herded sheep up and down the "long paddock", (the feed on the verges on the side of roads), throughout the district. This had been quite prevalent throughout t...

This is a piece I wrote when I was working in an organization called Nucleus Software, India as part of the Six Sigma department. We had these annual outings which were called Nuc Ventures. Our editor in chief wanted me to write something for our annual magazine on our ventures, but ultimately did not like the piece for obvious reasons.  "Rational People Adapt Themselves To The Impe...

A man came walking along the street. It was not his first time in town, actually he had been here several times before, yet no one existed to recognize him.The man walked easily while smoking a cigarette along the street. He wore a nice cut suit and black gloves, his mouth turned in a light smile. The mouth was the only thing you could discern of his face, the rest of the face was covered in shado...

We first met in the college canteen when I was in the second year of my engineering. She has just joined the college at that time. She had inadvertently said ‘Good Afternoon, Sir' and I had nodded without looking at her. But there was something in her voice that had first attracted me. I abruptly turned and there she was. In a red salwar kameez, she looked lovely. I think it was about a year...

Three times. Three times in. Three times out. Three whole times. He inspected the expert work more closely, tracing the outline of the wound with his fingers through the velvet overlay of crimson. He could feel it, still warm, through the surgical gloves. Captain Envy even smiled, "Yes, the Coroner will see a single entry wound. Exce...

Si sos una persona a la que le encanta escribir y le gustaría compartirlo con el resto del mundo seguro que esta página web.te va a encantar Se trata de SlapaStory, y su proposito será el de proporcionarnos todas las facilidades posibles para que podamos compartir todas las historias y relatos que salgan de nuestra cabeza. La forma de hacerlo no puede ser más sencilla, solamente tenemos que ir...

Si sos una persona a la que le encanta escribir y le gustaría compartirlo con el resto del mundo seguro que esta página web.te va a encantarSe trata de SlapaStory, y su proposito será el de proporcionarnos todas las facilidades posibles para que podamos compartir todas las historias y relatos que salgan de nuestra cabeza. La forma de hacerlo no puede ser m&aac...

The river had hardened. The 12 o clock sun had sent across a heat wave swallowing the whole expanse of the road, and what was left of it but the white dashes of stitching clothing the earth. I had laid out on my backseat of the car, it didn't matter what hour it was, what mattered was how this was born. I was a giant whale, on the entire row of the back seat of the car, the whole of my back presse...