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12Oct
97 comments on “It Happened to a Wobbly-legged Boy”

It Happened to a Wobbly-legged Boy

Posted by umashankaron October 12, 2012February 11, 2016in Fiction97 Comments

Many years ago, when time had still not shriveled my mother, and I was still a shy little boy, I was struck by a bout of measles. The only memory of the suffering that has survived the quicksand of consciousness…

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14May
96 comments on “The Ghosts of Jamun Trees”

The Ghosts of Jamun Trees

Posted by umashankaron May 14, 2012October 1, 2017in Fiction, Such is Life96 Comments
Jamun Tree Ghosts

Before he died, Karamuva was the best tree climber of the village and the clusters surrounding it.  He loved to clamber up anything green with stalks and leaves, planted to the earth and capable of withstanding human weight. From the…

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23Apr
111 comments on “Another Day like This”

Another Day like This

Posted by umashankaron April 23, 2012August 29, 2014in Fiction111 Comments

The aqua green sedan came to a halt at the corner of the road. A yellow ‘TAXI’ sign glowed dully on its roof. The street lights were still on although the night had fallen off the sky. The driver recovered…

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08Apr
87 comments on “Going Blind”

Going Blind

Posted by umashankaron April 8, 2012August 29, 2014in Fiction87 Comments

O Scorpio-cat When you have gone My eyes will turn To lumps of stone ~Vikram Seth Not that he was cooking often, yet a man must have a morsel to live. Usually, he would just warm up a bun or…

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01Apr
93 comments on “The Evening That Killed (Part-II)”

The Evening That Killed (Part-II)

Posted by umashankaron April 1, 2012May 9, 2016in Fiction, Such is Life93 Comments

(Read the Part -I Here) Never trust the rains. Not when you have lost a ton of outdoor fun as a child to twisting torrents. Nor if your classmate’s skull was squished like a melon under a passing truck when…

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23Mar
90 comments on “The Evening That Killed (Part-I)”

The Evening That Killed (Part-I)

Posted by umashankaron March 23, 2012May 7, 2016in Fiction90 Comments
The Evening that Killed -I

There hangs a small painting, silent and unnoticed by most, on a wall of my house. It is a lonely work of art, facing a quiet space in the narrow passage leading to the door. It was a present from…

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07Mar
48 comments on “The Giggling Gladiator (Part II)”

The Giggling Gladiator (Part II)

Posted by umashankaron March 7, 2012November 5, 2017in Fiction, Such is Life48 Comments
The Vampire of Nut

(Read the 'Part I' here) If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, Nalini came right from Uranus. She was a female form hacked out of the purest permafrost. Everything about her was cold, sharp and angular, the…

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04Mar
30 comments on “The Giggling Gladiator (Part I)”

The Giggling Gladiator (Part I)

Posted by umashankaron March 4, 2012May 15, 2018in Fiction, Such is Life30 Comments

Chhotu is the secret police. Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti. Period. For the incredulous, yes it still exists. Of course, it has a different name. Dare me not to come clean. If I expose him here, he will be soon found floating…

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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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