A misguided perspective

Bodies lay everywhere... bloodied, writhing, still. Adults and young ones alike. Dismembered joints, heads minus trunks, torsos missing limbs. Life snuffed out in its prime, nary a thought spared to the outcome. The carnage was spread out in all its gruesome, gory, ghastly glory. Who could’ve thought, looking at this dance of death, that these had not so long before been living beings, going about their daily business, without a care! Such was the absoluteness, such the finality. Alas, such is always the stamp of death!
Do the killers know not what they do? Is it for mere passing joy that they...

Read the full article in the December 2008 issue of Horizon Magazine

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Perspiration and perspicacity

When I was seven, my mum's needle-work box held great fascination for me. Since it contained many sharp objects, mum lived in mortal terror of me playing with it and stabbing myself all over. So she always tried to keep it out of my reach. But having been born with an insatiable curiosity about everything that was inaccessible to me and being twice blessed with an amazing agility that used to come in handy for dragging and climbing about things, I more often than not managed to lay my small hands on that enchanting box of wood. Many a sleepy afternoon found mum having her siesta and me spending several...
Read the full article in the July 2008 issue of The Gift Of Stitching

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Of wet feet and mug's luck

Only a pincushion has it worse.

It must not be much fun being a dartboard. All those sharp missiles getting thrown at one, with enough force to power a small rocket. Granted that the red, green, black and white colours are very becoming, especially when set in an orderly concentric fashion; still, it must puncture one’s ego to be the target of so many piercing barbs of the steel kind.

Darts zoom into my life quite suddenly one day when I espy a notice at the office claiming that the staff common room has undergone some refurnishing and a dartboard is the latest addition towards employees’ pursuit...
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The ties that bind

I am around eight years old and totally flummoxed. My mother has just posed the following conundrum to me:
“Two pairs of mothers and daughters went to the market and bought three lemons. They each got a whole lemon. How is that possible?”

Resisting the urge to just stare at her and blurt out that she is joking, I carefully go over the riddle word by word. After five minutes of straining the grey cells, I am nowhere near the answer. Five more frustrating minutes with numerous fractions worked out infront of me, and I utterly give up. Mum smiles and explains, “The two pairs were: a Grandmother, a Mother...

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Dreams can come true

It’s been one of my dearest childhood wishes to learn how to swim. Often has the damsel-in-distress story metamorphosed into damsel heroism in my dreams. Shipwrecks, poolside saves, beaches and shark rescues – they all have figured prominently in imaginary escapades in which yours truly plays the super heroine. Heck, if it were up to me, half the catastrophes on water could have been avoided. Or so I like to think.

The fact that I wouldn’t even bathe in a standard bathroom tub without scuba-diving equipment at hand fails to discourage me. I banish from thought all the horror stories, heard at...

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