Shail's Nest

Picture-speak

Shail — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:20:00 +0000

When I reached Yeshwantpur station yesterday morning and had to wait for a cab, I saw this. What was in the box?? On a closer inspection I found it was a dog-in-a-box. And that reminded me of this. For some reason Goofy fitted her ample self into this small box in the new house we had shifted [...]

The losing battle

Shail — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:29:59 +0000

I lay awake in the darkness, unable to get back to sleep. The sudden cramp in my leg was what had awakened me. The pain had been excruciating. Rubbing my calf vigorously I sat up for some time till the pain had abated. But getting back to sleep was a different story. It was pre-dawn time [...]

Wordless Wednesday 6

Shail — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:16:27 +0000

Dear Airtel

Shail — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:27:05 +0000

Dear Airtel, Real friends they say are hard to come by in this world. Friends who are there for you 24×7, who stand by you in your hour of need, who patiently wait for you to return from wherever it is you have disappeared to…. Yeah they are really hard to come by. So I am [...]

You took them…

Shail — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:02:39 +0000

There were diamonds in my eyes Pearls in my smile You took them all away…. To pave the courtyard of your home. - Shail Mohan (2009)

Will you marry me??

Shail — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:39:44 +0000

“I stumbled upon the net one fine day a few years back and have felt like Alice in Wonderland ever since.” – Shail Mohan. There is something about the internet that’s curiously magical and uplifting. Where else can you, at a sedate fifty, with hair beginning to gray at the temples and wrinkles making their [...]

The willing victim

Shail — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:32:46 +0000

- a small tale I put the cap back on the pen and laid it on the table slowly. Her eyes moved from me to the pen and then back to me. Hope flickered in them. The tear drops on her long lashes shone like dew drops on the morning grass. Her eyes never ever failed [...]

Wordless Wednesday 5

Shail — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:30:27 +0000

Love-light

Shail — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:59:29 +0000

It did not rain the day we met We had hoped it would make us wet Instead the sun shone bright And then there was love-light. - Shail Mohan (2008)

In different ways

Shail — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:17:38 +0000

Overt feelings in my eyes grow naked tendrils that you dread they stretch and touch the chill making you gasp inviting you deep into dingy darkness a world so different from your own you squirm, look away something gnaws your insides like it does mine yet… in different ways… a covert hand finds a coin the musical tinkle as it drops into the outstretched bowl fills your heart as it [...]