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

Exit the Ghost of Blogger

Posted by umashankaron April 12, 2020August 28, 2026in 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, 2019August 30, 2026in 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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02Feb
26 comments on “Unwaiting for Godot”

Unwaiting for Godot

Posted by umashankaron February 2, 2019August 30, 2026in 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 uniform resource locator. Beguiled enough to have waited for ages, we have figured it’s time…

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24Dec
40 comments on “Years in the Ash”

Years in the Ash

Posted by umashankaron December 24, 2017July 31, 2026in Poems40 Comments

The old year shrivels like a dog-eared calendar in the ash,Days fuse into dust, hope into hungry tinder, in the ash. For a decade of writing my heart out on the Internet,The façade has imploded in its splendour in the…

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25Nov
46 comments on “’Oumuamua”

’Oumuamua

Posted by umashankaron November 25, 2017July 26, 2026in Such is Life46 Comments

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.

21Jan
46 comments on “Why Did the Chicken Write a Blog?”

Why Did the Chicken Write a Blog?

Posted by umashankaron January 21, 2017December 23, 2019in Such is Life46 Comments

ARNAB GOSWAMI: Can you tell this, on this channel, right in front of all of us: why can’t the chicken write a blog? The nation wants to know. RAHUL GANDHI: The chicken has written the biggest blog since Independence and…

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14Jan
16 comments on “The Orb of Hereafter”

The Orb of Hereafter

Posted by umashankaron January 14, 2017August 30, 2019in Such is Life16 Comments

About a week shy of the onset of the New Year, I presumptuously augmented the copyright notice at my blog to 2017. Don’t mistake me, I have long stopped caring about the trolls looking forward to plagiarizing my mumbling —anyone…

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03Jun
37 comments on “Nightfall of Blogging”

Nightfall of Blogging

Posted by umashankaron June 3, 2016June 4, 2016in Uncorked Angst37 Comments

As the nightfall of blogging closes in on me, I am more inclined to exhaling in private than gasping online, more willing to navigate through the bushes and backwaters than honking in the perpetual crescendo of the world wide web.…

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30Aug
41 comments on “The Silence of the Scrolls”

The Silence of the Scrolls

Posted by umashankaron August 30, 2015September 21, 2015in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst41 Comments

It’s been a while since the nightingales sang in the darkness, fidgeting on boughs swaying in the night-wind. It’s been a while since the fingers splattered on the keyboard like an impromptu rain. There is this dike thin as rice…

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06Apr
61 comments on “Shakespeare’s Email”

Shakespeare’s Email

Posted by umashankaron April 6, 2014April 18, 2014in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst61 Comments
Mad

'The evening is still, the birds silent, the wind dead like a tramp, flopped on a footpath. The sky is dressed in dust and dusk.' (From my short story: End of Dusk) I look at my face in the mirror…

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22Dec
34 comments on “Diamonds in the Detritus”

Diamonds in the Detritus

Posted by umashankaron December 22, 2013January 30, 2017in Such is Life34 Comments

I remember how in my childhood time was like a river of molasses where I’d twiddle my thumbs like a noonday fly waiting for my father to return with the promised goodies. Waiting for the monthly issues of comics was…

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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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The Rice Maker

Three Tamarind Trees

End of Dusk

The Monk in the Rain

Sam was Sad

Painter of Omens

A Wobbly-legged Boy

The Ghosts of Jamun Trees

Pebbles You May Like

In Pursuit of Oz

From the Diary of a Covid Positive Fugitive

Unwaiting for Godot

The Gunslinger Followeth

‘Oumuamua

Thus Spake My Father

Hangmen of April

Goodbye, Cynthia Jobin

Haruki Murakami’s Well

The Same Night

The Crusted Slice

Unnameable Things

Reading The Forgotten Waltz

The Siege of the Bog

Fungus on the Filter

She was a Sparrow

A Hole in My Pyjamas

The Slippery Slope

An Owl Reflects

The Last Salute

Zinfandel Moments

Ghostwalker

My son, must I stay?

Fra Lippo Lippi

While I be the Banker

The Poems

This Drop Come Home

Virus and Void

The Forgotten Barbecue

Years in the Ash

These Fingers

Afterwards

Lend Me the Assassin

The Winter of Tonight

A Leaf by the Nightfall

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When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi

Boats on Land — Janice Pariat

Red Sorghum — Mo Yan

The Casual Vacancy — J. K. Rowling

Aerogrammes — Tania Jame

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