Posted on July 5, 2008 by hridayramshenoy
Word count: 976 | Estimated time to read blog: 10 min
The first, light pre-monsoon drizzle had just ended and the reluctant grey clouds still hung about in the evening sky. It was a gloomy weather that brought back memories of things long forgotten.
Harry parked his Mercedes into a nearby lot and stepped out into [...]
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Posted on June 22, 2008 by hridayramshenoy
Word count: 1042 | Estimated time to read blog: 10 min
The sea of protesting laborers cleaved like butter under a hot knife as Kamathmaam’s chauffeur-driven A/C ambassador car entered the factory premises. The sloganeering stopped and the crude posters denigrating Kamathmaam were lowered. Today was an important day in the life of all the [...]
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Posted on June 18, 2008 by hridayramshenoy
Word Count: 371 | Estimated time to read blog: 5 minutes
It’s 9 PM. Darkness has crept in and the cold January wind is at its freezing worst as I walk all alone on the deserted street, hands tucked tightly in my pocket.
Not quite familiar with the street, I amble on uncertainly until I see [...]
Filed under: Short Story | Tagged: Dark night, Dentists, hardly readable stuff, hridayramshenoy, HRS, Lone woman in a dark night, One inky black night, Visit to the dentist | 9 Comments »
Posted on June 1, 2008 by hridayramshenoy
Word count: 1950 | Estimated time to read blog: 0.00036 nano seconds!
For the technically challenged:
Don’t dismiss this blog because of the terms you see here. Just note that I have hyped both memory units and time – memory units are large and time is extremely small. So forget the yottas and the zeptos. [...]
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Posted on January 13, 2008 by hridayramshenoy
Word Count: 870 | Estimated time to read blog: 6 minutes
“Buzz buzz…. Buzz buzz…. Buzz buzz…. Buzz buzz….”
The persistent ringing of the cell phone woke up Gady .R from his alcohol induced sleep. With groggy eyes, he picked up the phone and answered it. The speaker on the other end was ominously brief -
“Gady [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2007 by hridayramshenoy
|Word Count: 1800|Estimated time to read blog: 12 minutes|
Mhanthu was the petty thief of the village. Pocketing a cake of soap from the local village store, getting his otherwise bare feet into a pair of slippers at the temple and putting his bony arms into open windows of houses to grab an alarm clock interested [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2007 by hridayramshenoy
|Word count: 660|Estimated time for reading blog: 6 minutes|
I am standing on the terrace of a multi-storey building. The wind is blowing in my ears. As I come to the edge of the terrace, the wind gets stronger. It is perhaps nature’s way of dissuading me from taking the next few fatal steps.
Now, perched on [...]
Filed under: Short Story | Tagged: Death, Determination, HRIDAY, hriday ram shenoy, hridayramshenoy, HRS, Life, Non-linear story narration, Optimism, Perseverance, Short Story, Suicide | 10 Comments »
Posted on November 11, 2007 by hridayramshenoy
Word Count: 1217 | Estimated time to read blog: 10 minutes
Gonu was a mouth-organist who played popular Bollywood songs on the beach to make ends meet. Being dumb since birth, his only form of expression was his mouth-organ and each evening he spent his time on the beach entertaining kids who would generously hand over [...]
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