Weather

It was the kind of day when the sun is warm and inviting, the shade pleasantly cool.
The kind of place where, as you walk, you get nicely toasted, and then a large shadow looms up – a tree, sometimes, a building at others – nice and cool, but the sunshine on the other side seems [...]

Status symbols

I suppose that has to be the theme of at least one post while I’m in Delhi! Well, here goes.
The market where I live has two vegetable shops. One’s a Safal vegetable shop, where there are usually only two kinds of vegetables per day, and the other, located in the main part of the market, [...]

Dreams

Three little birdies wanted to fly west. They had their reasons, you see. Different ones each, I mean. And they didn’t really know each other, but since they were all planning to fly west, they thought they’d make a pretty formation in the sky. A nice ‘V’, they all agreed, could be made with three [...]

When these people have a headache

do they ask for their head to be cut off? (Thanks for the link, Dimmy!)
I remember an invitation once, to meet an amazing old lady over tea and sherry. I remember a sun that didn’t seem to want to set; oranges and pinks and silver in the sky, gold and pink and green on the [...]

An MRI machine

I want so much to know what it looks like from the inside. The inside of the tube, I mean – the actual inside is probably a lot of wires and chips and stuff.
And why they keep sliding you up and down inside it. Like and elevator, lying down. All the way up, and then [...]

Open Secrets

Can you have a secret that everyone knows?
Is it a secret if everyone knows it but everyone who knows also knows it’s a secret?
Is it a secret if everyone knows but you don’t know everyone knows?
Is it a secret if everyone knows, but they don’t know what they know?
Since I am trying to work up [...]

The Awesome Foursome and the Frog Prince

“Dips, what is this?!”

“What is what?” 
“How did the Frog Prince get in here?!”
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It seemed as if it were meant to be.

Projects were allotted in the first week of term, and Spectacle-Chewer always wanted group work. And since no one knew anyone (or so he thought), he allotted groups too. So there it was, a [...]