Tag: literature

• Snowfall

  I walk into the café, with a bag And a few books inside. And I see you curled up in a corner With a John Williams. – ‘Stoner’ the cover says, when you glance, Confused if I was ogling or reading. Your sight drops on me Like a snowflake on the tongue, Sharp, cold, distinct,…

  shishirkc

  May 3, 2020

  Uncategorized

  coffee, literature, Love, poetry

• Original Copy

  – Is it wrong to love a married woman? – There is a term for it – Extra-marital Affair. – I didn’t say ‘for a married woman to love’ but ‘to love a married woman’. Do people have to earn a right to love someone, one right for each? Even if that is the case,…

  shishirkc

  January 12, 2016

  Stories

  india, Kiss, Life, literature, longing, Love, memory, Science Fiction, Short Story

• Sir

  -I will call you after lunch, maybe? -Yes. It was 11:00 am on a Monday morning and I was returning from two consecutive Discrete Mathematical Structures lectures on Pigeonhole Principle and Generating Functions with a two page Tutorial Sheet in my left hand, a pen in the right pocket of the pair of jeans I…

  shishirkc

  August 31, 2015

  Stories

  books, literature, Love, memory, poetry, Robert Frost, Short Story, Teacher

• Lessons in Love

  (Co-author: Nikita Agarwal) Have you seen the morning sun emanating briskly its rays on a spring morning? Whenever I met her, she felt the same. That’s the best analogy I could come up with not because she was no better than this (believe me when I say this, she was the best person I had…

  shishirkc

  December 26, 2014

  Stories

  books, bookstore, literature, Love

• Two Sons of a Storyteller

  Notes:  1. This review first appeared for evaluation during the course ‘Introduction to Literature’ at IIT Delhi. And then on another blog of mine – http://shishirchaudhary.blogspot.com For once, imagine yourself in the shoes of a kid. What would you prefer? Listening to a story with characters having interesting names and styles of speaking along with an…

  shishirkc

  January 2, 2014

  All About Books

  book review, english, literature, rushdie

• A Bookstore Wanderer

  Best place for me to hangout is a bookstore. I love the smell, the raw musty woody smell, that could very well have been an aphrodisiac if not for the shortcomings of human senses and sensibilities. Give me a book and I could eat it. Digestive system may go for a toss. Losing it out…

  shishirkc

  September 30, 2013

  Thoughts

  books, bookstore, literature, reading, stream of consciousness