A friend of mine who was a CEO of a big company told me the other day that he was leaving his job. I thought he must be becoming the CEO of another, bigger company, but he told me that was not why he was leaving it. …

He had expected chants of “Rango, Rango,” reverberate the auditorium. Sarang Gore walked up to the dais to receive the distinguished alumnus award. But all he heard, instead, was pin-drop, eerie silence. Their reunion had less than ten people, all in their fifties, from the class of thirty. …

That is (was?) the most frequently asked question (FAQ for short!) nowadays. Everyone at home needs Wi-fi. Actually not everyone, but everything needs it, which is, more or less, the same thing. Because everyone is using everything. The phones need it, the laptops need it, even the TV needs it…

The other day when we met over coffee, Swami was in a bad mood, which isn’t surprising. But what was surprising is that he was in a bad mood because of me. “You will never write a bestseller,” he said. “You write stories and articles and novels, that’s the problem…

Why did God give the human species the intelligence to invent the mobile phone? Sitting alone in a plush restaurant in despair, young Rakesh Oswal threw his phone away. Even in the AC of the restaurant, his forehead had a few drops of sweat. Lots of questions filled his tormented…

Flash Fiction is defined as “fiction of a type characterized by being very short, typically consisting of only a few hundred words” or “a fictional work of extreme brevity that still offers character and plot development.” I recently wrote a few flash fiction pieces, some of which I have submitted…

‘Anniversary’ was a story I had written more than five years back. It deals with the golden wedding anniversary of a Punjabi couple and the dynamics of two close, old friends and businessmen. I rewrote it in 2019 and released it as part of the collection “ Soulmate and Other…

The Academy of the Heart and Mind first published this story “My Friend Vishal” in their issue in May 2021. This is a story narrated in first person of a man and his relationship with a close but not-so-close friend Vishal over the years. You can also read it at…

Someone said there are three types of lies. There are lies, damned lies and then, there is statistics. And then, beyond all those lies, there is work from home. Now there is work from home, plus there is home work. And that is no lie. A friend of mine told…