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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]