Posted by: Aadisht on: July 29, 2009
(written in honour of Katpadi Katsa’s upcoming nuptials) Kitty Aunty has always enjoyed weddings. But in the past few years they have been incredibly important to her. Now that her children have left the house and she no longer teaches junior school, being the centre of all weddings is how she occupies herself. Kitty Aunty [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 21, 2009
It all started because the UPA government was embarassed by Sainath blasting them for privatising Neyveli Lignite Corporation while farmers were dying in Vidarbha. They decided to show that they were doing something, so they passed a law making moneylending illegal and imposed stiff penalties on anybody who was collecting debts without a banking or [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 4, 2009
Saileshbhai had been able to get some good out of a bad situation since he was a boy. In those days, his mother used to insist that he drink milk everyday though he hated it. So he would take the glass down to the housing society’s playground and give it to the Kapoor’s Alsatian Jupiter. [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 28, 2009
(A short story in the style of Neha Vish’s fiction fragments. With sincere apologies to her for ripping her off, and to my readers for inflicting this upon them.) He feels happy. After six years away, he is now home again. He doesn’t have to put aside some amount of his salary to buy furniture [...]