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Black & White

Posted by: Naren on: June 30, 2009

It was the world’s worst break-up. After being a couple for almost seven years, they didn’t know what to do without the other. It was difficult to forget all those good times, and they both did lots of things to try and forget – the guy, for instance, drank cold milk with glucose all night [...]

Wroth’s Word

Posted by: Naren on: January 8, 2009

“Why doesn’t the dashed bus come?!”
Like the ticker tape that runs at the bottom of every news channel nowadays, that was the sentence flashing across my mind every few words the bleached septuagenarian uttered. It was a grand morning, a light mist hanging over the dew-frozen earth, the sun’s rays coming in fine lines through [...]

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Mono-Act: Atticus Finch’s Closing Argument

Posted by: Naren on: October 16, 2008

As part of my Drama course, I was asked to present a Monologue. Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch impressed me a lot. Hope you enjoy it.
Regarding the decrease in the number of words I have written these past months, I must apologize and give you various reasons like academics, lack of [...]

Taare Zameen Par – A review

Posted by: Naren on: December 29, 2007

Every child is special – you couldn’t agree more with it after you watch this Darsheel Safary (Ishan Awasthi in the movie) starrer. Aamir Khan has done it yet again. In an era where super stars shy away from playing second fiddle to other actors, Aamir Khan weaves the story in such a way [...]

Too chicken to live…?!

Posted by: Naren on: December 27, 2007

Dear momma,
I have lived all these days listening to all my friends’ shrill, piercing cries. Everyday, I wake up thinking it’s going to be me today, but that just doesn’t happen. It is a bittersweet thing – you feel happy that you are alive and sad as you hear your friends, with whom you spend [...]

Protected: Pitch-forked!!!

Posted by: Naren on: November 22, 2007

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Paining people…

Posted by: Naren on: November 2, 2007

… is an art, a gift. You can’t learn how to pain people. You are born a pain God, or you aren’t. There is no gray area. Many of the world’s greatest are pain gods! From great poets, novelists, writers, lyricists to economists, physicists and even many of the Nobel Prize winners, there have been [...]

Love…

Posted by: Naren on: October 31, 2007

Love…
They met. It was another routine day. No breeze pushing strands of hair across her face, no stars in the sky worth lying down and watching, no shallowness of breath, no one’s heart beat fast, or slow. They said the same things, asked the same things and talked the same things. As usual. Like everyday. [...]

Twiky, the leaf

Posted by: Naren on: April 24, 2007

The little one peeped out, receiving her first rays of golden red sunlight, and warmth. She was a young, light green color, innocent and raw. The bleak early morning sun smiled at the young life sprouting. The little one looked about herself, yawning and seeing the world drenched in nectar like dew. As she looked [...]

I Live…

Posted by: Naren on: April 22, 2007

I live in a cyclone, one that is relentless in it’s fury,
One that is gentle to look at, from a distance.
I live in a strike of lightning, one that always strikes at the same place,
One that lightens everything up, if only for a moment.
I live in an avalanche, one that keeps boring down upon me,
One [...]