“Bayees tak padhai, pachis pe naukri, chabees pe chokri, thees pe bachche, saat pe retirement aur phir maut ka intezaar… (study till the age of 22, employed by 25, marry at 26, children by 30, retirement at 60 and then a wait for the end…) …is not the type of…

Light shone out through the small and evenly spaced out rectangles. Windows with borders adorned by a red motif, akin to those of palaces. I gaze at them intensely, focusing hard, trying to see what is inside. But able to only imagine the wondrous world behind the glass panes. No less than a magic carpet flying a privileged few to distant…

It just strikes me. Mum and Dad had no expectations of us. No, no! I don't mean it in the sense of them giving up on us as beyond hope or redemption!! It is just that I do not remember ever being under pressure to perform or achieve or do…

On emerging above ground at Oxford Circus, we split up. The girls walk to Zara, accompanied by their Mum, while I head to H&M to check out reasonably priced, while comfortable, Bangladesh made cotton tees and shorts. Yep, simple, as in simple tastes and wants, is my middle name! As…

She turned and looked back. More than a couple of times. She was in the row immediately before ours, a little to the right, with, presumably, her husband beside her. She was quite likely bemused though she didn't let it show. I carried on, regardless. Dancing, that is. While still…

A stream of cool air flows down with nary a catch or even the slightest hint of a rasp or rustle. Clean, clear and smooth. Pleasantly stroking the sides of the wind pipe seemingly passing all the way to my abdomen. We have just finished two hours of badminton. Just…

I cup the token in my left palm. My palm is sweaty and I close my fist tight not wanting to chance the token slipping out and rolling away. …

The version of the fairy tale which has stuck in my mind is the one where the narrator voices “And…. it was just right!”, after the third try by Goldilocks — of the porridge, chair and, finally, the bed. Apparently, the moral of the fairly-tale is that little children run…

Rob Janoff designed Apple’s logo in 1977 to, apparently, convey that using the iconic device is not short of an experience. Akin to biting into a crunchy and juicy apple! The first bite of an apple long preceded computing devices though. The bite taken by Adam and Eve. The first…