Shail’s Nest

They ask me the same question all the time, every single time without fail, “Do you work??” Sometimes I wonder if it is a conspiracy. Hey let’s ask Shail whether she works. Its fun!! She might just explode into a million colorful bits one of these days and its not even Diwali yet. Sweet-natured [...]

Don’t come closer
Now that you have gone farther
Any step nearer
Makes me in fear quiver

Once… I let you touch my heart
Draw me out of my past
You rowed me ashore
Showed me heaven’s door

In your love transformed
A new ‘I’ had formed
Pure and untainted
I was joy unalloyed

No longer alone
The world I seemed to [...]

That historic (to me) day had dawned just like any other. There had been no inkling of the perfect gift that Fate had in store for me. I was returning home as usual from my evening walk at Sevoke Road Cantonment area.. Even as I neared my house, I heard this divine music wafting down [...]

Oh Sita Divine
Mother mine
Won’t you tell your mother
Her love to shower
On a lonely soul
Forlorn and cold…
When in anguish you cried
With her arms opened wide
She took you back home
Never let you roam.
I was not found in Mithila
To be raised by King Janaka
Not traversed dark forests
With Rama and Lakshmana.
No golden deer have I espied
By ten headed Ravana [...]

Money, I have heard my parents mention, does not grow on trees. I found the statement to be quite true in subsequent years, for never did I find one with money growing on it. The statement came in quite handy when it was my turn to bring up my own monkeys… err children. “Money [...]

I am cross and positively bristling with indignation, obviously the righteous kind. Well may you ask the reason why. Don’t even dream of telling me to cool down. Ha! Would you be doing that kind sirs and beautiful madams if you were in my shoes?? More likely that I’d find red hot flame spewing [...]

Working Woman. Interesting words that. What do they mean? The logical conclusion would be a woman who works. Woman. We all know what that means. So lets stick to the other word and find out what it means.
Work says Answers.com, is physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something; [...]