2 States The Story Of My Marriage

‘I am trying to. I have to,’ I said, wondering where I could call Ananya apart from her home number. If only these damn cell-pho ...

I read reports for the next two hours. Each one had financial models done my overenthusiastic MBAs who were more keen to solve e ...

‘That’s USA, madam. This is India, we have one billion population, or two billion eyeballs. Imagine the potential of the Interne ...

‘Why? You have a potential client?’ Bala asked as if the only reason people existed was to become priority banking customers. ‘P ...

‘No, she finds other reasons to be miserable. Luckily, this time it has nothing to do with me.’ ‘Ananya, let’s go out, OK?’ ‘I c ...

17 ‘Swaminathan’, the name plate of Ananya’s small standalone house proclaimed in arched letters. I pressed the doorbell even as ...

We sat opposite each other as I faced Ananya’s dad for the first time in my life. I strained my brain hard for a suitable topic. ...

‘No,’ he said. I realised Ananya’s father answered exactly what was asked. ‘Who is he?’ I asked slowly. ‘It’s Radha’s Carnatic m ...

I nodded. Ananya never did any evening prayers in Ahmedabad. I heard noises from the other room. They sounded like long wails, a ...

‘Not much, but it is kind of nice,’ I said. Of course, saying I have no fucking clue what you are talking about didn’t seem quit ...

‘Shut up,’ she giggled. ‘And I’d suggest you learn a bit of Carnatic music. No, stop, don’t get off the sofa.’ She gave me a fly ...

I followed Ananya as she loaded her plate with rice, sambhar, funny-looking vegetables and two kinds of brown powders. ‘What’s t ...

‘Radha, you must listen to Shobha. She knows best,’ Ananya’s father said. Indian men slam their wives for their sisters with zer ...

‘It is a little. What about my mom?’ ‘I used to be scared of her pictures in campus. Forget her in real life! Her looks alone ki ...

18 The beautiful sunrise at Marina Beach compensated for the 5 a.m. wake up call. Hundreds of people took a morning walk along t ...

‘My parents came to Chennai with great enthusiasm. But now dad lost his promotion. Pesky relatives visit us all the time. Amidst ...

‘Shut up and pay him off,’ she whispered. I took out my wallet and took out twenty bucks. ‘Illa Illa...’ the cop continued to sh ...

to study them in the past was because that distracted me from my parents’ fights. I revised chemistry to prepare for my first cl ...

‘Yes, from college,’ I said. My other roommates came to the living room. None of them wore shirts. I shut the fridge to avoid fu ...

‘I haven’t had sex for four months,’ I said, but she went out and opened the fridge. ‘You have beer too. Superb!’ she praised an ...