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Author: Surya

Call me crazy – Camp Nanowrimo

Posted on April 1, 2019April 1, 2019 by Surya

Call me crazy, I just signed up to Camp Nanowrimo. A commitment to write the first draft of a novel in one month! 189 words on day1. Slow start, but feels awesome. Here is the opening –

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Working title: “Invisible Worlds”

Posted on January 21, 2017December 25, 2018 by Surya

I soak the knife and the long blade in the hot boiling water, I count till 30, slowly, like Baba had told me to do – he said that boiling water can kill germs, and if I forget to count or count wrong, then the children will get infected. Then I count 10 more just…

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We, the millennials

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Surya

Neither a hare nor a tortoise be, Rather the child that meanders free. Our destination is a mirage to which we float, Not a mountain to climb with disasters fraught. We don’t lay claim to the things we own; Pride is for the experiences we have borne. Let’s not just smell the roses, let’s plant…

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10 years

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Surya

Darn. I forgot the blog’s 10 year birthday. It was on 26 Aug 2014. If I had time, would have posted the sequel to this Remembering a journey. Watch this space for the part II. Coming Soon.

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Fall

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Surya

Kill me before I die For the rose petals are more beautiful in bloom Than fallen and trampled beneath our feet.

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Mother

Posted on August 6, 2014August 6, 2014 by Surya

Part of the reason I started my blog was that I would stop leaving random pieces of writing everywhere…when I was a kid, and before we had computers, my mother would clean up my room after I had gone back to the hostel after my summer vacation and she would find shreds of writing everywhere…

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A promise from six months ago

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Surya

Six months ago, I promised myself that I won’t write. Six months ago, I promised myself that I won’t write. If left to my own devices, I scribble a lot, in random places usually – the most frequently used is the draft folder of my email client, which is an absolutely nightmare to search. I…

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Travel Book list

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Surya

For someone who loves traveling and who loves reading, I read surprisingly few travel books – its sort of like the way I love chocolate and I love ice cream, but I don’t like chocolate ice cream – however, I am always in search of good travel books, in the hope that some day, one…

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Three ways of writing a short story

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Surya

R.L.Stevenson says: There are, so far as I know, three ways and three only of writing a story. You may take a plot and fit characters to it, or you may take a character and choose incidents and situations to develop it, or, lastly, you may take a certain atmosphere and get actions and persons…

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The modern audience – have we lost our patience?

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Surya

I am sitting at the most comfortable spot in our sofa, playing with Bolano’s 2666 in my hands. It was a birthday gift from six months ago and I still haven’t got to it. I want to read it, oh! I have wanted to read it for so long – but I am thinking of…

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