Differentiator

Were you there when they tore my dream down with a shredder, And beat it to a sodden pulp? Oh, I didn’t cut a pretty sight then! I was young. Were you there when they chose the Smart Pants over my hard work, The glitzy exterior over my inner grit? They rejected me, with their […]

How to avoid beating a well admired Asshole?

If you asked me, “Does he indeed deserve to die?” I would have said, “Yes.” Murukar X was a vicious old fox, a swarthy man with a too visible paunch; he would have been a smudge on the name of beauty pageants if they had unwittingly and inadvertently selected him for their contest. Now-a-days […]

Summer Moonshine by P.G. Wodehouse

Not quate (sic) as the sand in the Civilization’s Spinach, Not quate (sic) like the lunatic furies of the Royal Baronets, But rather like words slipping from a tongue lubricated by unaccustomed Bollinger, Pours out the words from a Master Storyteller. What Ho! The one author whose works I immensely love is that of P.G. […]

‘Airman’ by Eoin Colfer

Might this be the most old-fashioned way to tell a story, but a tale of a young, strapping genius as a hero wooing a beautiful princess, who is made to suffer a terrible fate due to the act of an unconscionable and dastardly villain, who after spending few dark and painful years in prison bounces […]

Hotel- Arthur Hailey

What Arthur Hailey’s ‘Hotel’ achieves is far beyond its gripping plot and a hooked reader. It reminds me of a time (vicariously, of course) when readers were treated with rich prose, and I of course grasp in wonder at the sheer volubility of Mr. Hailey. Maybe I cannot possibly emulate him in his writing […]

The Money-Changers

You know, even I am impressionable. I admit that it has been (and will be) my long standing attitude to never ever consider anyone superior to myself. Of course I have been proven wrong a million times over, and in the process I discovered that I am no good; it’s just sheer audacity and tendency […]

The Five Hundred Words Limit

This was one of those angry retorts that I sent to one of the publishers as I crossed my word limit!!!!! But don’t you worry, I am no stalker!!!!!!!