Author Archive for athi

self-involved seldom selfless mostly selfish and a free thinker

Déjà Vu

 Ghosts and spirits scare me. And I’m terrified of snakes. But what really freezes me right down to the guts are unexplained things. It is a human tendency to be scared of things you can never really understand.
Déjà vu or ‘paramnesia’, meaning ‘near memory’ is one of them. Enlightening you on the term, déjà vu [...]

Shine this Diwali

The most beautiful thing about Diwali is ‘lighting up’. I love to see the tiny shimmering lights adorned on buildings, shops and the diyas lining up the balconies of houses… the sound bursting of crackers… even though many of you might say it is not eco-friendly … I completely love the screaming shouting spirit of [...]

Him

You meet many people in life, but you always lose or gain something in the process. For good or bad. Whatever I ‘m today is because of all the people I’ve met and learned from, all that I have experienced in the process of knowing them, in turn knowing myself. However there is one particular [...]

Crap?

She met him in the bus.
Hours later
She slipped on top of him. ‘Got them?’ she mouthed.
‘Crap! Just come down.’
Minutes later
‘Together!’ she screamed.
Two years later, they still lay together separated only by a meter of freshly dug mud, one careless, the other less careful.

Dreams!!!

I was running. Going to places I had seen before, but couldn’t place. I was tired. I couldn’t find water anywhere. Why are there no shops here? I looked around to find somebody I know. But to no luck. There were very few people and they were all dressed in red. I heard someone honking [...]

An Easy Choice

As I stood at the railway station watching him go, I knew I wouldn’t see him again. Was I sad? Maybe. But I was definitely being practical. You can’t be in love with someone you have known for barely a day. At least not the sort of love I wanted to be in. Yet it [...]