Having a sister who is 6 years younger has many disadvantages. She can be a complete nuisance and destroy your favorite book when you refuse to let her chew on your year-end project. But you can also bend her nubile mind to your will. Not only can you make her willingly take the blame for your … Read more →

My facebook has been virally sharing this link, and it got me thinking. Everyone loves it because it’s true. And I smiled almost after every other point. So, the stereotyping isn’t exclusively for those that live in Manhattan. Even those that have lived in Brooklyn and Queens(namely, me) agree on most points. Here: 1. When you … Read more →

This post originally appeared on Quora as my answer, and later on Huffington Post. Do check back on Quora if interested, as I update the answer periodically after every new episode. There are no spoilers for those that have not read the books. Question: How would you explain the plot of Game of Thrones in brief, … Read more →

The following story was my contribution to the Stories For Thing project. The website contains lovely stories written for an adorable 4-year-old girl by various authors from the Twitterverse. To find out more about the project, visit http://storiesforthing.com/about/  ******* Mama and Dada were sitting in front of the compunitor again. There were four compunitors in the … Read more →

The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a gory, inappropriate children’s book, written by Edward Gorey in 1963. The book is a complete opposite to what children’s books usually are: merriment, fairy tales, and happy endings. This book, however, tells the one-line story of how 26 children meet their gruesome ends. It was one of the earliest black … Read more →

There are some things only Lewis Caroll, the polymath (becoming which is one of my dearest life’s ambitions, by the way), could have done. For example, he was the only one who could have come up with The Alphabet Cipher and The Game of Logic(Remember “some Cretans are liars”?). He is the only one capable … Read more →

You come in gorgeous colors of cream and white; You’d rather run away than put up a fight. You’re a great subject for photography, you hardly ever move. But you creep most people out, you just don’t fit the groove. You’re fascinating when you hunt – the way you stalk, then attack. You’re horrifying when … Read more →

In this post, we examine names of some of the members of the Order and their families. The Order of the Phoenix was a secret society founded by Albus Dumbledore in the early ‘70s to combat Voldemort and his rising forces. In 1981, after Harry got his scar, the order disbanded, only to be reconvened … Read more →

It was a lazy sunday, and she was cooking. He tiptoed from the bedroom and stood outside the kitchen, ears alert. He waited. A minute passed. He heard the sounds of water sloshing, the sound of the refrigerator door opening and closing thrice, a cough, the familiar sound of a rice cooker.. he breathed a … Read more →

Owing to my upcoming nuptials, I’m going to be a little irregular here. I also decided to write sensible stuff, and promptly went into writer’s block. Today was a special day. I received an invitation from my fiance’s grand-uncle to my own wedding! It was accompanied by a cute note addressed to me, that said, “Please treat … Read more →