Sometimes on days when I truly question myself, I go back to my Instagram photos way back from 2018 and 2019 to see if that one person who said 'I think I’m falling in love with you' the first time we ever kissed, has taken his little like back from…

At Vasanth’s bookshelf in Thamaraikulam, one can find copies of books I would never imagine him reading today. There is Chaucer’s The Prologue, Jesus’s Holy Bible, Science’s JEE entrance test papers and some odd proverb collections. The rest of this rectangle shaped room of his childhood is sparse yet full…

Two days ago, my sister came down to Chennai from Bangalore to spend her Sunday with family. She told me that she booked tickets on Friday but wanted it to be a surprise for the others. …

For several weeks now, Chandra has been plotting to disappear and become a creeper on the walls of a rich boat club house. It has become her only dream. This telephone operator at The Bindu Times is remarkably bored of sitting and answering “Welcome to The Bindu Times. …

Vasanth and I can notoriously never make up our minds. Although we are terribly different in so many ways, some of our poorer qualities like this general indecisiveness makes it hard for us to sometimes be quick. Unless under duress, we postpone every serious point of decision making. This especially…

I feel incompetent when I do not find the words to write about the people who mean the most. This is especially the case with Dravina. We’ve been friends for over a decade from school to now. While I’ve written detailed mails in the past professing my love for her…

For years, I’ve hated Bombay and the memories of its terrifying rains. On rare days though, I fondly remember Amma and our connection to Pepsi Uma’s Ungal Choice. Everyday over the last three months, I’ve encountered at least one picture of a rainy Mumbai- either its heavy clouds, a dangerous…

Over the last two years, Vasanth- a middle-aged man from Nagercoil’s Thamaraikulam village who has travelled the world and eventually landed in Chennai- has taken it in his stride to ensure that we watch every episode of Koffee with Karan. It has been instrumental in our relationship. …

Aim To find if one can thoughtlessly eat an apple over a distance of 25 kms- between Teynampet and Talambur- while thoroughly enjoying their Sunday morning. Apparatus required Apple, hands, mouth, brain. Theory There is a general notion that people who travel long distances in autos cannot partake in small…