There is an element of trouble involved in many beards. I am not talking about people for whom religion makes it mandatory that they keep one. But those for whom it’s a matter of choice, the world turns slightly complicated when they allow nature to take over their faces; coz a beard brings on many […]
Category: My Books
I AM SEX — FRIENDS, HUMANS, EARTHLINGS, LEND ME YOUR EARS
Hi, I am sex. I am around 2 billion years old. Nice to meet you 🙂 I am guessing you know me. Especially if you are a teenager or older, though many children also know about me these days. Good for them… or not. Anyway, I am here to tell my story. I think it’s […]
THE GIFT OF A MACHINE — EXCERPT FROM DILLI MUMBAI LOVE STORY
Out below the clouds I rode, waving at the moon. On a black bike I rode, a dream that… We were going to live that dream again. Soon. In a minute. The rain was beating down on us like crazy. The moon was a faint silhouette behind the clouds. You wouldn’t look up and say […]
INTERVIEW GIVEN TO A MAGAZINE FOR MY BOOK DILLI MUMBAI LOVE STORY
Brief us a little about your novel ‘A Dilli Mumbai Love story.’ ‘A Dilli Mumbai…’ is a humorous and passionate love story that climaxes in Mumbai attacks. Two people from vastly different backgrounds studying in Delhi fall in love, marry against odds, go through the ups and downs of married life, and then one of […]
THE BEAUTIFUL SUICIDE OF MEERA
“Meera!” She is in love. She was in love. She would always be in love. Always. She puts her left palm on her heart as a gesture of promise to him. Always. They can take away her life but they cannot take away that. She looks at the shallow silver cup before her that contains […]
OF DREAMS AND MULTICOLORED DRAGONS
At other times she was like me. Dreaming strange things and feeling proud about it. She dreamed of a curve once. It was a white curve to begin with, but every time it looped up, it changed colors. When you touched it drops of colors fell on you. She was not very tall and in […]
PARTINGS
When I found her I was overjoyed. Or rather she found me. Most of the times it happened that way. She was the active one, doing things, taking decisions, defining boundaries. Let’s go to the beach, we shouldn’t talk right now, let’s part. She was the one who left me. We parted at her insistence. […]
TO FOLLOW OR NOT TO FOLLOW (THE CONSTITUTION) — THAT IS THE QUESTION
To Follow or Not to Follow (the Constitution) – That is the Question One of the chief duties of a citizen is to be a nuisance to the government of his state. Thomas Jefferson I remember that my first lesson in mathematics given to me by my brother was a disappointment because he said ‘Now […]
A STORY DREAMT FROM VIVALDI’S MANDOLIN CONCERTO
The girl got up from her bed. Nimbly she put her step forward. One. Two. Three. Thump. She rose in the air. Four. Thump again. She went up once more. She bounced like a balloon on its exquisitely small buttoned tail, and went up so high she hit her head on the roof. ‘Ouch! That […]
THE BEAUTIFUL EFFECT OF MUSIC
Music makes Firoj Ahmed cryptic – in both body and soul. His words, usually strong, tricky and profuse, an undercurrent of a torrential mountain stream, become sparse in the times he is leaning back in his chair, hearing one of his many cassettes play – cassettes that are kept in three wooden baskets lying on […]