Short Story

Mr. Albert

Posted by Vinod Narayan on April 20, 2008 at 2:58 pm

It was on a Saturday evening that I saw Mr. Albert for the first time, talking to dad near the porch at our ancestral home in India. Holding a lantern on one hand and a walking stick on the other, a long over coat and with one shoe shining more than the other, he looked [...]

Blame it on the heart

Posted by Vinod Narayan on June 1, 2007 at 3:10 pm

It is said that blaming is the easiest thing one can do. It doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, young or old, blaming is there always, as an option for you to escape the torture and public humiliation of failing. For him it all started with a voice from inside like it happens [...]

Silent Conversations

Posted by Vinod Narayan on March 23, 2006 at 3:07 pm

It always has been my fascination to silently observe people who talk to me. Many times they stop their conversation and ask “Hey, are you still here” thinking I have been lost in my thoughts How incapable of them to not know that I was all this while immersed in them and got so involved [...]