Butterfly

‘Ammalu, don’t stand in my way. Let me fly like a butterfly and enjoy the beauty of the sky’. ‘I won’t. Go up. Enjoy the sky but don’t sit on flowers. Flowers contain honey. Honey contains sugar’ ‘As well I can sit at home looking at your shrunken face!’ ‘Ideal for your age. My face … Read more

The basics

‘Ammalu, today is Mother’s day. Poor, my mother! How she struggled to teach you the basic things a girl should have known and which you didn’t know’ ‘SP,  you’re wrong. The basics a girl should know before she gets married, I was aware of. Otherwise, my mom wouldn’t have agreed for our weddings’ ——————— ‘Things … Read more

On a stroll in a winter evening

  On a stroll, with kids in a winter evening The sky got crowded with dark clouds Drizzling started, the wind whistled loud, Shreya enjoyed its sound and speed. Seeing her hairs and frock frills rocking ‘How, this?,  she asked. ‘The wind God’s hands,’ I replied. ‘God’s hands, where?,’ she asked I smiled and she … Read more