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Part - 17 “Are you waiting for me, Kamakshi?”, asked Padmaja a little breathless from climbing the stair case. She had never been...

The other day I had been to the Indian High Commission in London. I had heard horror stories about the chaos and lack of order at our ...

Part - 16 The drain in Sanjana's house and was going to take a good few days to be repaired. She along with daughter Tara, had tempor...

Part 15    “Ah, it's you”, says the tall lady (Padmaja should really find out her name), “you're back. I thought you had forgot...

 Part - 14 For the community notice board. Highly experienced retired primary school teacher offers FREE tuition lessons for  ...

Part - 13 They had painted the slide red. It used to be green to match the colour of the uniform. Red just didn't seem right in t...

Part 12 There are things that people do when they eat out alone. Like use their mobile phone to call others they would never talk to ...

Part 11 “Chee! You ought to be ashamed of yourself”, thunders Sanjana. The drains in Sanjana's flat were blocked that morn...

Part 10 She is not quite sure how to indicate that she is following the conversation. If you can call it a conversation, that is. ...

Part 9   “If you wanted to do something, anything, then why didn't you just tell me?”, begins Kamakshi. “I would have introduce...

Part 8 Respected Madam, I am writing to you about your advertisement in last Sunday. I am G.Krishnan, aged 48 years old, w...

Part 7 Dear Mrs, With regards to your advertisement in last Sunday's Hindu. My name is Mr.S.G.Santhanam. I am 65 years old....

Part 6 Padmaja has been feeling restless since early morning. She begins by straightening the sheet on her bed. She stretches it on...

Part 5 The tuition classes have ground to a halt and in many ways, Padmaja is relieved when she acknowledges it during a telephone conv...

Part 4 It is now July and if she had been working, schools would have been busy preparing for quarterly exams. The heat from summer is ...

Part 3  Tuition lessons seem liked an obvious idea at first. “It is perfect for you, Amma.”, says Sanjana, “You don't even have to s...

Part 2 It sounded grand calling it a career. As if it was something she had chosen to pursue after years spent studying and training for i...

Part 1 She knows even before she has opened the wrapping paper what is inside it. Rattling the box confirms her suspicion. It is an...

I must have been six or seven when I became aware that people travelled between countries fairly regularly. The realisation must have been ...

I am no longer hysterical like I was when the letter came through the post a few weeks ago. "But this can’t be right", I wailed dr...

A Clerihew is a whimsical biographical 4-line poem. Its rhyme structure is AABB and is often quite contrived. Like this one made up by the ...

I had lost my interest in blogging and never picked it up again. But recently I have been wondering about posting competitions on this blog ...

Looking back, I can pinpoint the exact day when I decide to run. I was 18 at that time, a cadet with the National Cadet Corps. Selections ...

I watched Endhiran-Robot the other day and came away feeling exhausted. The relentless assault of grandeur and hyperbole for close to three ...

I understand all too well the awkwardness of asking friends to donate towards your charity campaign. I've received several such requests...

In the first couple of years following our marriage, whenever someone would ask me how we met, I would tell them some fantastic story of ho...

It was as if all the drama had been exhausted in the first two legs that my running laps were delightfully devoid of any. By now I was resig...

Of the three disciplines, cycling was the one I was least worried about. The pressure was off me to perform. I had an instrument, a vehicle ...

I attempted my first open water swim back in March. I had been doing a fair number of laps at our local pool and reckoned that swimming in a...

The most telling moment of my Triathlon challenge occurred right at the beginning when I was still racking my bike on the allotted spot. A c...

Dear Aaron Chanakya Balan What a weirdly wonderful name your mother has chosen for you. No, don't ever blame your father for it. I d...

(Images courtesy: prosportphotos.com) What a fantastic run it turned out to be on Saturday. Eight miles of pure adrenaline rush. It was far...

Thank you everyone for your show of hands. Here's what I propose to do. I am running 8 miles this Saturday in an off-road challenge. Det...

...if you are reading this then please leave a comment. I have a contest coming up for you and it needs a quick turnaround. Go on, don't...

Over the weekend, Shoefiend and I took part in an 8km run. I wanted to finish in under an hour. I did it with 7 minutes to spare. The resul...