Category: Uncategorized
-
My dream of publishing a book by an Indie publisher, is just near. So near that I think I could touch my book. Its been a patient four years of renaissance, where I started as a pantser, molded my writing into a plotter , and eventually ended up as a plantser. I have experienced them…
-
Author’s Note: This is a ‘real’ story of my grandfather Mr. Raman of Mangalore, written and narrated by my dad Mr. Ravindra Rao in Kannada, and of course, my honest effort to anglicize it. Most of the words are his, and, despite the added fictional touch, the theme remains intact. 1940s, Mangalore I stop at…
-
1 The time when my distant cousin, Sachin Nair had his first encounter with an astrologer, he was six months old. He had peed on the astrologer’s lap. But, what concerned the people around was not this matter, instead, the astrologer had found a serious error in Sachin’s horoscope. It said he would face a…
-
Weeks, days, hours, minutes‘Til I’ll be home,One, two, three, four, five, six‘Til I’ll be home, ’til I’ll be home Last month, or probably much before that, I was living by the above stanza sung by ‘Boyzone’ from their song ‘Coming Home Now’. I feel shy to write that stanza as I had been childish counting…
-
Part A ‘Derrick Terrence Lobo!’ the man said, almost in a shout, which made an old man walking his pet mongrel cur to turn back, and whose name incidentally was Derrick. ‘Well, you can call me Derrick’, he said politely this time. But the second hand goods dealer had to laugh. Both at the incident…
