One Day
I returned from college on a public bus today, and sat on the window seat. On the way a man, probably 35 or more, got in the bus and sat beside me. I had put on my earphones and was listening to music. After a ... Read More...
The Interview – Tenzin Tseten Bhutia
The Interview - Tenzin Tseten Bhutia
The world has turned from a simple crowd of people to dreamers exploring and tasting the common aspects of life with a different spice. Something so simple as clothing is... Read More...
Room No 118
Room No 118
“Yes ma’am, that’d be no problem at all.” The manager said.
“Trring, trring” and after exactly seven more rings, one of the receptionist picked up the phone.
“Good Morning, this is Grahan H... Read More...
Swimming Upstream
Swimming Upstream
I remember the drive vividly, we were on our way to the airport to drop off our late grandparents after their visit. They were talking about everyone they’d met and how hospitable everyone ... Read More...
What we write we feel and what we really feel
Before writing anything, every writer tries to make the writing meaningful and make it more of what they feel about something they write or what they feel about the writing itself. I think that writing somethin... Read More...
Lying to yourself
I take small sips from a bottle of Perrier, or Evian- it doesn’t matter; the point is, I sip on privilege. I am a feminist, one so radical that sometimes, I want to burn my bra and I would, if not for my saggy ... Read More...
The Uninvited
Fifteen years of the same thing happening month after month. I should be better prepared for it by now, and yet it delights in surprising me whenever it can. Possibly every month, if it had its way. The thing t... Read More...
Give me words. I’ll give you nothing.
Right here. This is where life shuts down so you can hear it sing. Do you hear the absolute? Do you feel it tingling your bones? It is you. It is everything that went wrong. Everything that didn’t happen. Every... Read More...
Waves – Prologue
I look at her face as we sit on the boardwalk's concrete lining. I don't remember her being any more beautiful or, in that case, any less. Those big brown eyes were hiding behind her thick brown hair catching m... Read More...
Kaalo Pothi – Movie Review (No Spoilers!)
As has been the tradition of recent movies of reflecting our tragic history (Talakjung vs. Tulke, Wada no. 6, etc.), 'Kaalo Pothi' is a story crafted with the background basic of how Maoism had frightened Nepal... Read More...
Dreamer – Part 3
‘So where is my guide taking me today?’ she showed some concerns.
‘Any special place you want to visit, madam?’ I tried to impress her.
‘I’d like to eat first. I am really hungry’ came... Read More...
Dreamer – Part 2
What?? An invitation to join her? Seriously. Her? I was dazzled. A beautiful girl in the public park invites you to join her. Who wants to say no?
I nodded and seated some meters away from her mat.... Read More...
Dreamer – Part 1
I was nearly there at the pinnacle of the world. 8,848 meters seemed some inches away. It was quite an achievement. I could finally smile with the snow eaten lips. No, they didn’t hurt but gave me the impressio... Read More...
Sexy Distortion
'To be, or not to be'
How precisely and wonderfully Shakespeare presented the soliloquy of a man in his play Hamlet. I wonder if he had ever tried portraying a woman's dilemma in such an eloquent manner... Read More...
The Gray Side
It's the horizon that I want. Your horizon. Your black and white side, I've seen them. If I haven't, I have felt them. I have felt their power, I know, at least a little, of what they are capable of.
Your de... Read More...