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03Dec
46 comments on “Writing is So Long”

Writing is So Long

Posted by umashankaron December 3, 2013December 9, 2013in Such is Life46 Comments

As a student of Logic in my younger years, the first two examples of absolutely positive and negative statements I stumbled upon were, (1)   Man is mortal. (2)   No man is perfect. So utterly true are these sentences and so…

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23Nov
37 comments on “Exit Motherboard”

Exit Motherboard

Posted by umashankaron November 23, 2013November 23, 2013in Such is Life37 Comments

One fine afternoon a fortnight ago my desktop Titan slipped into a deep sleep, ignoring all attempts to power it on. Having mulled over the lull, the wilting grey lump in my balding skull concluded a malfunction in the circuitry…

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20Nov
24 comments on “Beyond I, Robot”

Beyond I, Robot

Posted by umashankaron November 20, 2013November 20, 2013in Such is Life24 Comments

It was in the early Nineties that I started reading Isaac Asimov. Goaded by lingering childhood urges, I picked up I, Robot, a collection of stories about evolution of robotics, sometimes supervised by Dr Susan Calvin, a phenomenal Robopsychologist, never…

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03Nov
50 comments on “Fungus on the Filter”

Fungus on the Filter

Posted by umashankaron November 3, 2013June 17, 2014in Photography, Such is Life50 Comments

The opposite of time is memories. Memories, a span with no beginning, no end, no periods, only nebulous swaths of consciousness. Memories don’t tumble terminally like the sand in an hourglass. Or tick away with the finality of the arms…

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26Aug
66 comments on “Dear Father of the Nation”

Dear Father of the Nation

Posted by umashankaron August 26, 2013June 29, 2016in Such is Life66 Comments

“Leave India in God’s hands, in modern parlance, to anarchy; and that anarchy may lead to internecine warfare for a time, or to unrestricted dacoities. From these a true India will arise in place of the false one we see.”…

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28Jul
60 comments on “A Sliver of Platinum”

A Sliver of Platinum

Posted by umashankaron July 28, 2013December 25, 2019in Such is Life60 Comments

I have paused for a siesta on the promenade, Faakir, Hush up the gathering commotion, that I live still.. ~Sudarshan Faakir  I guess it is a pale shadow of the original. I have always had this problem with translations. But…

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31May
66 comments on “Breeze on the Grass”

Breeze on the Grass

Posted by umashankaron May 31, 2013January 30, 2017in Such is Life66 Comments

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamouring to become visible." ~Vladimir Nabakov My dear readers, we have been together these past years. I have known…

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01May
63 comments on “Sam Was Sad”

Sam Was Sad

Posted by umashankaron May 1, 2013August 29, 2014in Fiction, Such is Life, Uncorked Angst63 Comments

It was a sultry summer morning when I first met Sam twenty five years ago. My roommate was groveling for an omelet, sprawled in his bed. He had been missing his turn at cooking breakfast for the fourth day in…

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13Apr
73 comments on “A Mélange of Monologues”

A Mélange of Monologues

Posted by umashankaron April 13, 2013January 30, 2017in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst73 Comments

I was young when my family pulled out of a city to the backwaters of the country. Of the many heartbreaks I weathered, the loss of my small book club was the most debilitating. The civilisation I was uprooted from…

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07Apr
71 comments on “Flames and Ashes”

Flames and Ashes

Posted by umashankaron April 7, 2013August 18, 2013in Such is Life71 Comments

It is a Sunday morning and folks are huddled up in sheets.  The protesting whine of autos whisking the unwilling souls to their workplaces has been lulled for the interregnum. The birds are a riot of notes and I am…

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03Mar
91 comments on “Cold Cross Buns”

Cold Cross Buns

Posted by umashankaron March 3, 2013April 1, 2014in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst91 Comments

“Hot-cross buns! Hot-cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, Hot-cross buns! If you have no daughters, Give them to your sons; One a penny, two a penny, Hot-cross buns!” ~ A popular Nursery Rhyme  All right, then! You are…

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23Feb
58 comments on “Unreliable Skunks”

Unreliable Skunks

Posted by umashankaron February 23, 2013August 18, 2013in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst58 Comments

Having entered a phase of life where I tend to reflect more in retrospect than in prospect, it has dawned upon me why I’ve been in love with the character of Sherlock Holmes all these years. More than his prescient…

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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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