2 States The Story Of My Marriage

‘We never talk. At home, my mom and dad, they hardly talk. We’ll talk about the news, the food, the weather. But we never talk a ...

‘Not that, think about this – they won’t be Tamil or Punjabi. They will be Indian. They will be above all this nonsense. If all ...

19 Ananya was sleeping next to me and my head hurt from the beer. Ramanujan continued to slam the door. ‘What?’ I opened the doo ...

Ananya looked at me, shocked. She tuned into the mood on the dining table. ‘I’ll leave now.’ She picked up her bag. Mr Punnu sto ...

Mr Punnu looked aghast. Ramanujan had to save the situation. ‘He doesn’t know, Mr Punnu. He is new here. We should have told him ...

20 ‘I am good at chemistry. I need help in physics,’ Manjunath, nerd-embryo and Ananya’s younger brother, spoke with eh energy o ...

I passed the rest of the hour learning physics from Manju. I stood up to leave. I reached the living room where Ananya’s dad was ...

We sat for breakfast at seven-thirty. Ananya’s father went to the temple room to pray, and came back with the customary three gr ...

‘Do you know how to write those reports?’ he said. The cars behind us began to honk. The Fiat didn’t start instantly. Uncle made ...

I stood at the traffic intersection. Autos blared their horns at each other as if in angry conversation. It was hardly the place ...

21 ‘Welcome sir, welcome to State Bank of India,’ Bala said. His tone couldn’t hide his anger, thereby ruining the sarcasm of hi ...

Ms Sreenivas’ panic mode was entertaining enough to attract bankers from other groups to come to our area. First, she spoke to m ...

individual investors, let alone housewives, in the first place. Of course, they never complained when the commission kept coming ...

‘How is it going?’ he whispered, quite unnecessarily as people had already left for the day. ‘Fine. I sent you the presentation. ...

I kept quiet. ‘The country manager is coming. They will ask how the Internet stocks sales to housewives came about. I have to ta ...

22 My father never calls me. I have no idea why he did that night. I have no idea why he did that night. I wanted to sleep befor ...

‘Is mom OK? I hope you are not calling me for some guilt trip of yours. Because if mom is not OK ...’ I said, separating my word ...

I came back to bed. I didn’t want my father’s chapter in my life again. No father is better than a bad father. Plus right now I ...

23 ‘Ready?’ Bala jollied me with coffee in the morning. Yes, Mr Balakrishnan, branch head of customer services, brought me coffe ...

‘What do you mean wait-listed for business class? I am not coming back like I did this morning sitting cramped with these Madras ...