Rangan never understood the fascination of his younger son with rubber bands. He was sitting on a bench in the railway station. It doesn’t matter which railway station or waiting for which train, he was just in a railway station looking at the empty rails and the cleaners sweeping the railway station before the next …
“You are so very jobless. At least let me do my job” this is a favorite sentence of my girlfriend to tell it to me. I am kidding. I have this knack of annoying her all the time by calling her at work and telling her I have nothing to do. I always had something …
It was a very small part of a long house. Yeah, one couldn’t say it as a large house. When Kathir got transferred to the town down south, they found most of the homes are built differently. For some reason, Mullai, his wife fancied this particular house. The back portion of the house was for …
Chennai had an awful lot of drunken accidents given its abysmal nightlife. The person had driven over an unfinished bridge and jumped right off it. Needless to say, he was drunk. The passersby and the people in the neighbourhood had pulled the person in the passenger seat. He was in bad shape as well and …
“So how does your business work?” little Divakar asked Desikan. “Why don’t people buy books but borrow from you?” “The concept of lending library isn’t a new one. I give people the books they dreamt of reading but couldn’t buy for various reasons. I deliver it to them to their door steps. They get to …
“Nobody could say what is going on in your mind. You just don’t show your emotion. You are afraid of being human”. He knew it was a mistake when he signed up for that anonymous feedback website. The people who don’t have the spine to tell their issues with him on his face, hid behind …
I looked at my sister sleeping in her bed in between her heavy books with worried creases on her forehead. She had asked me to wake her up early in the morning. I had overslept. I can only compensate by making her a coffee. The milk and coffee expenses had hit the roof ever since …
After shunting between several rented houses in Chennai, the feeling of getting my own house was indescribable. I didn’t have to pay more per unit of electricity anymore. I didn’t have to make sure I was home before 11 PM before they closed the main gate, which made the late night movies impossible. And I …
He came into the world on a bright May morning. Out of the ten babies born, he was the only male child in the hospital. There was no complication in the delivery. They had admitted his mother early in the morning, and he came right at breakfast time. The rejoicing family looked at the baby …
The street of Agraharam usually woke up to the suprabatham played in the Ramachandra Moorthy Temple in the street end. But for Maruthi, the day started much before that. He is the priest in charge of the temple. Nobody appointed or employed him there. One fine day he went in to the temple in which …
