Rings of Smoke

These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.

morning

I wake up in the morning, To empty beer bottles of last night, stubs of cigarettes smoked, Lying desolate in a cup full of ashes, A plate of dinner half eaten, And a book, half read and left open, pages curled and battered From a nightful of artificial breeze. When I begin to shave, I [...]

logic and radio

i was coming home from work,last evening, and like millions of people across mumbai,was listening to a random radio program.now,i am willing to accept the fact (if it is so,indeed) that one of the qualifications to host a radio talk show or be a RJ is probably that you either have to have a very [...]

traffic signal

he had left the office early,today…nearly half an hour saved,and yet,he was dog-tired.sitting in the autorickshaw he realized that he could not even listen to radio on the phone,because he had left his headfones with the other laptop,locked in his office drawer.oh damn!!and a hell lot of traffic and noise.the auto slowed down at the [...]

interview 2

Q:You say in your resume that you can play football.Why didn’t you make your career in football? When this one was recounted, several totally awesome answer scenarios were proposed.The best was this: Q:You say in your resume that you can play football.Why didn’t you make your career in football?

interview

well…crp is just around the corner. since i have to practice hard for it, leave no stone unturned i dont see myself getting any shortlists, and hence no interviews…i thought i would practice a mock interview anyways, to satisfy my curiosity about the real interviews. most the questions taken are from the indicative list the [...]

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