Deep Ties

                                                                                                             The Blogchatter A2Z Challenge starts on the 1st of April, 2021. Bloggers who are participating in this challenge need to write 26 posts over the month, excluding Sundays, when they can chew the cud and plan their writing. What is exciting is that the posts have to be in alphabetical order, from A to Z, which makes it more challenging. As I browsed through myriad wonderful theme reveals put out by blogger friends and acquaintances, I realised that every topic worth writing about has already been chosen. So, I put on my thinking cap, musing over what I could focus on and then, it struck me.  As Samuel Taylor Coleridge put it ever so succinctly,  "Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order." I have always been fascinated by poetry, and I have maintained a little diary of quotes which appeal to me. At last, here was a chance to put my passio

                                                                            GraphicRiver “Your haemoglobin levels are at 5.8! How are you even walking?” The doctor looked at me as though I was a specimen under a microscope, which I probably was, given that the normal Hb levels for a human being range from 9 to 14, or so.  I had to wax eloquent on my menstrual history from when I was eleven, and when mom told me all about periods and what I would have to expect. Of course, the deluge started at a time when I least expected it, when I was travelling by train with a rather conservative uncle and aunt. The result was downright embarrassing, and I got out, red-faced, and unwilling to ever talk about it. Till now! Those were the days when women were expected to be Carefree without Whisper. When friends around doubled over with cramps and moaned that their world was coming to an end, I waltzed about, wondering what all the fuss was about. Mom had definite views on everything in life, includin

  With a title like the above, there is a frisson of anticipation that goes through one’s heart, and one is not disappointed. Many talented writers have come together to write their stories, brilliantly macabre! 1.      Santhosh Bakaya lifts the curtain on this riveting anthology as she describes a New Year’s Eve party, where hordes of people made polite conversation about the most trivial topics. And the Fireplace Roars On’ ends with a quaint twist that send a shiver up the spine. 2.      ‘The Patient’ by Harshali Singh is one of the most intriguing tales in the anthology, highlighting the power plays that go on in the field of politics, mirrored by parallel power plays in hospitals as well. 3.      ‘Last of the Pench Tigers’ by Antara Banerjee touches the heart through its heartrending narrative as “the sameness of pain and sense of injustice” unite the wronged in an unbreakable bond of fellowship. 4.      What happens when an imposter tries to trap one in a web of deceit and lies? ‘