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06Nov
50 comments on “From the Diary of a Covid Positive Fugitive”

From the Diary of a Covid Positive Fugitive

Posted by umashankaron November 6, 2020November 8, 2020in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst50 Comments

It was on the Saturday the 24th of October, 2020, with the three days’ holiday in its infancy, that I dozed off with a mild ache pulsing through my meagre frame, right after the morning bout of toast and ginger-chai.…

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12Apr
51 comments on “Exit the Ghost of Blogger”

Exit the Ghost of Blogger

Posted by umashankaron April 12, 2020April 12, 2020in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst51 Comments

Confined to the peripheries of my home, looking out the window at a mysteriously pink moon rising day after day, I have of late been forced to cogitate on the wonders of being alive, the hump in the lawn not…

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15Dec
24 comments on “Mind Lies like a Mango”

Mind Lies like a Mango

Posted by umashankaron December 15, 2019December 24, 2019in Such is Life24 Comments

Yes, I have descended to filching from weird quotes of indeterminate, ambivalent origin and intent. True, I have faltered, faded, fumbled and stumbled into that eternal bin. The crispy tang of the green fruit before ripening into succulence has mellowed…

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25Aug
41 comments on “In Which Leia Doesn’t Eat the Ice Cream”

In Which Leia Doesn’t Eat the Ice Cream

Posted by umashankaron August 25, 2019December 13, 2019in Such is Life41 Comments

(Further to Bruno's Story) It seems I have troubled your heart, but it is a tale recount I must. So that next time you see a dog pup scrapping the bins for crumbs, you don’t wince in disgust. And when…

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12Aug
28 comments on “Bruno’s Story”

Bruno’s Story

Posted by umashankaron August 12, 2019April 5, 2020in Such is Life28 Comments

At the end of long nights birds chirped and squawked, squirrels chattered their heads out. The wind rose and fell and the tall trees whispered. Footsteps swelled and footsteps receded. Footsteps stopped and guffawed and came to peep inside our home. Footsteps cackled.

04Aug
31 comments on “Luna’s Story”

Luna’s Story

Posted by umashankaron August 4, 2019August 15, 2019in Such is Life31 Comments

Dear Finn, I don’t even know where to begin. But the skies get creepy like a hole in the mouth of a snake with each passing hour. And darkness falls like flakes and sinks into the soul of the dogdom.…

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13Apr
29 comments on “The Gunslinger Followeth”

The Gunslinger Followeth

Posted by umashankaron April 13, 2019April 27, 2025in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst29 Comments

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” ~Stephen King In the darkness intervening the 25th and 26th of February, the Indian Air Force executed what is now known as the Balakot Strike, also alluded to…

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02Feb
26 comments on “Unwaiting for Godot”

Unwaiting for Godot

Posted by umashankaron February 2, 2019April 14, 2019in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst26 Comments

Disquieted and quietened we stand, the pair of us at the brink of the Internet, conjoined and disjointed at the splice of consciousness and a unique resource locator. Beguiled enough to have waited for ages, we have figured it’s time…

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18Dec
11 comments on “1500. Reaching the pinnacle”

1500. Reaching the pinnacle

Posted by umashankaron December 18, 2018in Such is Life11 Comments

25Nov
46 comments on “’Oumuamua”

’Oumuamua

Posted by umashankaron November 25, 2017December 12, 2017in Such is Life46 Comments
The fugitive 'Oumuamua

My muse is a furious fugitive from a foreign galaxy, not unlike the ‘intergalactic interloper ’Oumuamua’, who having orbited the fuzzy nebula of my brain is now poised for an exodus to unknown dark matters. In the years now a…

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27Aug
40 comments on “The House of a Snail”

The House of a Snail

Posted by umashankaron August 27, 2017September 23, 2017in Such is Life40 Comments

So I got my relocation orders again. As with me, if you are a minion of a financial behemoth, all relocation orders are the same. But then, as they say, some relocation orders are more same than the others. As…

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25Jun
45 comments on “When False Dreams Come True”

When False Dreams Come True

Posted by umashankaron June 25, 2017March 13, 2022in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst45 Comments

Dear readers, the original title of this post was ‘Confusticated and Bebothered’. But I became jittery at the last minute, even though no detractors were skinned alive in the process of pilfering it from Dictionary.com’s daily offering, who in turn…

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The Vegetable Rice Chef

Three Tamarind Trees

The Bungalow by the Tracks

End of Dusk

The Monk in the Rain

Sam was Sad

Painter of Omens

A Wobbly-legged Boy

The Ghosts of Jamun Trees

Another Day like This

Going Blind

The Evening That Killed

The Giggling Gladiator

Ghazals in English

Lend Me the Assassin

Molten Moons

Afterwards

Wet Charcoal

The Icicled Bosom

Years in the Ash

A Leaf by the Nightfall

Pebbles You May Like

‘Oumuamua

Thus Spake My Father

Hangmen of April

Goodbye, Cynthia Jobin

Haruki Murakami’s Well

The Same Night

The Nightfall of Blogging

The Crusted Slice

Silence of the Scrolls

Unnameable Things

Reading The Forgotten Waltz

Writing is So Long

Fungus on the Filter

Flames and Ashes

A Hole in My Pyjamas

The Slippery Slope

An Owl Reflects

The Last Salute

Truth Alone Triumphs

Zinfandel Moments

Ghostwalker

My son, must I stay?

Fra Lippo Lippi

While I be the Banker

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