Shail’s Nest

Women cannot read maps, they say, and men do not ask for directions. I cannot vouchsafe for the veracity of the first part of this statement, the opportunity of testing it having not risen in this two score and odd years of my life on Planet Earth. I am willing to admit though that perhaps [...]

It’s presumptuous how some people mete out unwanted advice. Has me shaking my head in disbelief most times. Apart from the thought that makes me wonder why they think they must do so, is another more alarming one: Do I have ‘imbecile’ written in neon all over my countenance??.. Hmmm… I mean why else would [...]

Rebuttals stand guard
glinting knives in hands
Refusals choke into silence
Rebuffs with axes hack.
Wounded limbs chopped
lesions and cuts adorning
thrashing for life
lies frail Spontaneity.
Dwindling hope flickering
in eyes beseeching
to live to survive
in a world hostile.
Are its days numbered
the hours limited
Is time ticking
will Spontaneity be no more??
Shall it be sacrificed
at the altar of Rejection
meet an ignominious end
and die bereft, unmourned??
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This is a blog about those who have bitten me, at one time or the other. Yeah, you heard right! Bitten me as with teeth.
And right on top of the list comes the name of my sister. You are absolutely right! The one who goes about proclaiming, she’s the one and only one I have! [...]

Do not be silent
speak to me my heart
let your words of love
flow free from afar.

Make them sing to me
the song of our love
encircling me
in your love so warm.

Let them weave their way
through my silky hair
touch me tenderly
and dance in joy.

Your lips cannot kiss
nor eyes caress
the hands so rough
don’t reach [...]

Every week, there is a mad scramble, a veritable race between dog and woman, to see who gets to greet the Lord and Master first as he arrives home for the weekend. This is about one such weekend….

The Wife, as is usual, is sitting in front of the computer, brows knit, a thoughtful look on [...]

Pic courtesy Vivek

The waves heard my secret
From the gentle breeze that blew
When my love whispered
The words I love you.
They ran with joyous roar
To tell it to the shore
The sands who knew
Blushed in the orange hue
The breeze then told the trees
To the clouds and the bees
And blew on carefree
Across [...]

I am back from my much deserved holiday. Son Junior and L&M are at the station to receive me. They have been waiting for me at the railway station from the unearthly hour of 2 a.m. The train predictably, is late and arrives at well past 3 a.m. Son Junior takes two of the bags [...]

Come early morn on 19th March, there I was at the Vadodara railway station being received by my one and only sis, yes the one who bit me. Catch me foregoing a chance to mention about the time more than four decades ago when she, a two-year old bit me, her elder sis, just above [...]