2 States The Story Of My Marriage

I thought hard about how I should answer her question without saying the truth, that I loved with Ananya in one tiny hostel room ...

‘What?’ ‘I know what guys want.’ ‘You don’t. And try to stay away from wrong numbers.’ We left Barista and drove back in her spa ...

14 ‘I can’t believe you said no to Dolly,’ my mother said. ‘There has to be a reason, no?’ She had brought up the topic for the ...

Cell-phones had recently arrived in India. A minute’s talktime cost more than a litre of petrol. Needless to say, it was the new ...

Shipra masi turned to my mother. ‘Your son is gone. I am sorry, but this boy belongs to Jayalalitha now.’ The bell rang twice. P ...

‘Did you see a girl?’ ‘Yes,’ I said. I was kind of glad I did, just to piss him off. ‘I will....’ He screamed at my mother, lift ...

‘You let him do this, so he does it. Why did you have to start cleaning up?’ I sulked. ‘Because he’ll break the other glasses, t ...

I didn’t answer. Somehow the thought of being in Delhi and seeing ditzy Punjabi girls by day and dad at night didn’t seem terrib ...

Location Preference: Chennai or Delhi (equal preference) – – I sealed the form and dropped it off at the bank branch. In my bed ...

want foreign bank accounts than a Tamilian. And I am a Punjabi, so they would give me Delhi. Something yelped inside me. I read ...

Act 3: Chennai ...

15 My flight landed in Chennai at 7 p.m. we had a six-hour delay in Delhi because a psycho called the airport and said the plane ...

‘Yeah,’ I said and remembered a landmark Devesh had told me. ‘Near Loyola College. You know Loyola College.’ ‘Seri, seri,’ the d ...

you feel even your uncles can be movie stars. The heroes are fat, balding, have thick moustaches and the heroine next to them is ...

“Five hundred,’ one driver who spoke a bit of English turned to me. “No five hundred. Fifty,’ I said. ‘Ai,’ another driver screa ...

The drivers gave their version of the story to him. Uncle spoke to them in fluent Tamil. It is fascinating to see a Sardar-ji sp ...

‘That’s Sendil’s room, and that’s Appalingam’s.’ He pointed me to my room. ‘Anything to eat in the house?’ I said. ‘I don’t know ...

I’ll leave now. Guess what, I am wearing jasmine flowers in my hair today! It helps to have a traditional look in the interiors. ...

16 It is bad news when you hate your job in the first hour of the first day of office. It isn’t like Citibank did anything to pi ...

today. I met everyone though I forgot their similar sounding South Indian names the minute ii heard them. ‘Customers start comin ...