Causticapathy

Dheh

Writing on the wall

“You are a disgrace!” boss’s voice resonated in the meeting room as her petite figure slammed a laptop on the table just a couple inches away from me.

Urmila’s catchphrase and her tantrums were both getting predictable. Everyone in the team had impersonated her and made others laugh till their stomachs started hurting.

As she screamed at the top of her voice, veins appeared on her pale…

The penny drops like the bass!

Some people have such strong aura’s that you feel happy merely by sitting around them.

Their face radiates positive energy and spending 5 minutes with them can make you feel optimistic, energized, and excited. Siddharth once met the exact opposite of such people.

“Who the hell do you think you are?”

“I had specifically asked to be left alone. Security!”, hissed Siddharth, as he saw a…

Where the shoe pinches

The warm and golden rays of the sun were giving birth to another new day in the background score of birds chirping and cooing. It was one of the most scenic mornings in a long while. It was a something that photographers, writers, and artists lived and died for. It was also something that Dominic despised more than anything else.

Dominic stood in front of the mirror at the break of dawn…

Train of thought: Squeezing in like a local!

“Bhavans College?” implored a girl barely out of her teens.

My rickshaw driver gave her a death stare and looked back at me dispassionately with his bloodshot eyes. I took it as my cue to put down my copy of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ and pay the fare.

My gaze was stuck at the rickshaw driver as a horde of people kept shouting different locations at him. He refused to even acknowledge their…

Sweet and Sour Mangoes

“I can’t help it if he chooses to act like an imbecile, Ma!” yelled Shikha.

“You are younger, you try apologizing to him. I‘ll make him relent” replied her mother.

“What do you want me to apologize for? For ‘making’ him stop talking to me? For finding my life-partner on my own? For marrying someone from a lower caste?”

“Argh! why can’t both of you just forgive and forget! Your father and I have…

A feeling of lethargy and a stupor of pain woke Karan up from his slumber. His migraine had made him ‘Two-Face’ from Batman. Just that one side of his face was throbbing with pain rather than burnt. Being the workaholic that he was, he stretched for his mobile to check emails straight away after gathering consciousness. Nothing but spam and leave requests. Both qualified for unsolicited,…

The outcasts, rebels, and freaks

Against the grain, and against the herd at its peak We are the outcasts, the rebels, the freaks

Not a face in the crowd, pushing boundaries unallowed, fervently unique We are the outcasts, the rebels, the freaks

Taking on the force and hurling questions when power doublespeaks We are the outcasts, the rebels, the freaks

Apples that fell far from the tree, going with the flow aint our cup of tea.

A trip down memory lane Part

A trip down memory lane!

“I am not coming! If you still want me to come, you’ll have to sedate me and tie me to the back of the car” screamed Rishi.

Payal, his wife, simply ignored this provocation with a poker face.

The following morning, Rishi got up before Payal and started packing for their weekend gateway. The thing with power is, only people lacking it feel the need to scream and shout.

He packed his bag in flash,…

His eyes opened to a mild headache at six in the morning. He had experienced worse hangovers before, but this one particularly hurt more. As Arpit turned, he saw an attractive girl sleeping next to him; the pain went up by a mile. He got dressed in a rush and left before the girl could open her eyes.

15 hours ago…

Arpit looked at the solitaire for the thousandth time, his eyes gleamed and a…

The dance of delusion(Part 2)

“I will be late from office again” said Rajiv

“Oh ok” said Priya with a poker face.

Priya was getting increasing worried about Rajiv’s hectic work life as she could sense how tired her husband was these days. Rajiv on the other hand was brimming with exuberance lately and his excitement was visible on his glowing face.

He reached Salsa class late as usual and was welcomed by Natasha’s glaring…