Mayhem in the polling booth and more

My Polling Booth Debacle There must be some 6 spiders in the top left corner of the corridor where I was standing to cast a vote last week. I know because I was twiddling my thumbs and counting random things in an attempt to avoid participating in a conversation. You really don’t want to get …

The Angry Contractor

The living room of the Nairs was in pin drop silence. "As I said, no talking!" Vinit instructed his wife, who giggled. The tall and lean Shanmugham Contractor arrived a few minutes later with his assistant. He hurriedly parked his Kinetic Honda and cursed the heat and the bad roads. "So what have you decided, …

The Six-yard Signature

Do you remember the first saree you wore? Did it belong to your mother? Or was it your own? My first was a Mysore Silk saree, a feather weight saree in deep purple. My father bought it for me when I was 17. He wasn't too happy about it, so he followed it soon with …