Shail's Nest

……..continued from the first part: Danny and others….. The little Martians with big plans disproportionate to their own size wanted German Shepherds and/or Labradors. Awww… I mean who wouldn’t want them?? But I paused to take a look into the future and saw myself walking an energetic dog, all out of breath and panting (Me [...]

Losing him left an unbearable ache in my sixteen year old heart. I vowed never to have another one again. He had been a perfect bundle of joy, all white and fluffy and cuddly and had been with us for only a month. Yet when I lost him just like that one evening, my heart [...]

Dreams… Of waking in your arms To the beats of your heart Every single morn Dreams… Of a shared cup of tea Beneath the sprawling tree Just you and me Dreams… Of my head on your shoulder Listening to you sing A song of love Dreams… Of the falling rain Drenching us as it pours [...]

When you enter the Old Hostel (nothing of the old structure remains at present) of yore at St Teresa’s College, Ernakulam, past the room below the staircase which houses Mary thaathi (the warden’s unofficial ears and eyes, dressed in chatta and mundu in the typical Kerala Xtian style), you find yourself in a sort of [...]

Frozen tears cold as ice clogging up ducts too hard to flow in warm rivulets down alabaster cheeks lightening grief carefully padlocked in iron chests away from eyes that probe and seek. Frozen tears cold as ice trapped powerless struggling to flee in tiny gasps of shallow breath through tinier gaps cracks and fissures in [...]