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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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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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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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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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20Apr
20 comments on “A Bad Post, but wait!”

A Bad Post, but wait!

Posted by umashankaron April 20, 2011May 4, 2013in Such is Life20 Comments

I am sorry, folks. I give up. I am tired of pretending. And it is in best interests of all involved to get it straight: I am neither John Updike nor Steve McCurry. The declaration takes megatons of load off…

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13Jan
11 comments on “How to Hold an EVIL Camera!”

How to Hold an EVIL Camera!

Posted by umashankaron January 13, 2011August 26, 2011in Photography11 Comments

Lets face it then, I am an ugly man. How ugly, you ask? Quiet. To make the matters worse I took a fancy to photographing people. Now, imagine yourself being photographed by a baboon that looks like a man! I’m…

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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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