We never, ever, thought that this is how it would end. In fact, we didn’t even stop to contemplate the gravity of the situation. When…
I keep hearing gunshots from downstairs. The nine o’clock news bulletin is over and my cousins must be watching a movie. The gunshots, blood and…
He was called George, just like me, but we were nothing alike. I was tiny. Puny hands. Frail. I was like this tall (imagine a…
I curled myself on the living room couch, staring at our hunchback Sanyo TV, but not really watching it. It was a Sunday afternoon, so Sinbad…
I have never been in a bar brawl. I have heard of them, but I have never been involved in any. But I have witnessed…
Because you are in form one, you have no clue about saving. You are a spendthrift with your pocket money, and you use your bidhaa…
Sunday is the day all creations go on assembly, and God takes the roll call. Man brings out his best garments, bulls dust their hides…
“I lived in Block C, door 5,” his mother used to tell him every time they walked past that flat. “It was given to me…
Our shadows dance merrily ahead of us. The sun is retiring by the time we leave the hospital, and deMaitha and I are a pitiable…
There was a time in history when I was four. When I had not fully shed away the innocence of childhood. I was without blemish,…