by Adarsh Madhavan | Oct 17, 2020 | Adarsh Madhavan
By Adarsh Madhavan A wiry but large spider (nearly the size of my palm) has been stalking me for days!I can’t bring myself to swat this arachnid, but like the other day when my mom woke up at half past one in the morning and called me to say that she wasn’t going to...
by Adarsh Madhavan | Oct 12, 2020 | Adarsh Madhavan
Sometimes, I just want to go… Call it extremity. Call it a crime. Call it by any name. But, that darkness exists. It is real. DIE THAN TAKE MY OWN LIFE I had claimed earlier: “I’d rather die than take my own life.” But later lips cracked when I uttered this double...
by Adarsh Madhavan | Sep 29, 2020 | Adarsh Madhavan
By Adarsh Madhavan A neighbour called a neighbour who called another neighbour who called us to say that pssttt you know who is who is who is at the end of the other street? Ummmhhhh? Well, someone at their home has got the virus! But before we panicked and locked...
by Adarsh Madhavan | Sep 14, 2020 | Adarsh Madhavan
By Adarsh Madhavan Last August 3rd night I travelled from an airport in the Gulf on a flight to my hometown and now that seems like it was my last-ever flight. For, a series of events, one after the other, enveloped me in a dark, dirty and tight stranglehold from...
by Adarsh Madhavan | Sep 3, 2020 | Adarsh Madhavan
By Adarsh Madhavan I haven’t noticed it as yet. But, when a young, socially-conscious neighbour told me to watch out for the suspicious happenings in the ‘semi-forest’ type property nearby, my interest was piqued. In the last several years, since no activity or no...
