Manish's Mania

Love Story

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:38:16 +0530

Once upon a time... For there is always a time for anything and everything... From germination to repetition to resurrection... In one such time there lived a crow in the

Love at First Sight

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:08:04 +0530

There was once a man and a reporter. There was a girl. The man fell in love with the girl. Both walked towards different sunsets and new

Bedtime Stories

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:55:28 +0530

I don't know how the stories started. Like colours old memories fade from even most rugged surface. Maybe this was occasioned by Baba reading out from a book from his

The Party

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:42:20 +0530

"Welcome sir. How're you?," and the keeper opens the door to Noah's Ark. Up a flight of wooden steps and in. It's past nine thirty and the evening has

Monsoon

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:25:55 +0530

It was like any other monsoon morning in Mumbai. The sky covered by a grey veil of clouds was in mourning. The gloom seemed to have descended from the heavens

Mala

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:20:59 +0530

"Mala is dead," my reporter's voice crackled on the phone. The news left me stunned. I felt a sudden sense of loss overwhelm me. Not that she was supposed

Bombay

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:11:59 +0530

Bombay. My first images of the city are from films that I saw at Delhi's Chanakya cinema with my parents. In the late 70s, of ABBA and BoneyM and an

To the One I Love

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:41:36 +0530

...time passes as quickly as a white colt glimpsed through a crack in the wall. - Nichiren Daishonin (1222-1282) - "What do I write this week?," I asked

Rains

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:21:35 +0530

Mumbai has become a city of eunuchsNine days ago Sadanand Nikam's daughter was stabbed 20 times by her lover on a street in Thane at 9.30 am. There were hundreds

Motilal & Sons

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:04:44 +0530

- "If you're so sleepy please wait outside my room!," Sharma remarked even as my eyes closed for the umpteenth time. - "No. It's not that. I often close