Monsoon Memories
When the dark monsoon clouds gather in the sky, it sometimes takes me back to the good and bad old days of monsoon in our village. It used to rain non-stop for days together. [...]
Articles by Joshi Mukard
About Joshi Mukard
How I managed to forget my wife’s birthday every year for the last ten years, and still be alive!!
It’s been three years since I and my wife got married and more than ten years since we proclaimed our love for each other. But, much to my own annoyance, somehow her [...]
Summer, Rain and the Abandoned Lake
In Bangalore, the weather has become so unpredictable this summer. One moment the sun looks like it will make a Joshi Fry or Barbecued Joshi out of me if I venture out, and [...]
Bleeding Christ and the Dinosaur
My two-year old daughter, who has just learned to speak in proper words, came running to me one night, panting, “papa, come” she said and started pulling my arm. I [...]
An Indecent Offer
When a long time friend of mine moved into the ground floor house of the apartment where I lived on the first floor, I was joyed, and when he hired a good-looking maid to run [...]
The Church and the Sinner
I have always been a reluctant churchgoer. I have no deep-rooted convictions. I believe, of course, in God, and those things we had most often heard in church, that there is [...]
My Encounter with a King Cobra
I come from a place which, once upon a time, lay sprawled at the foot of the Eastern Ghats. Back then, the monsoon arrived with unfailing regularity. Narrow rivulets of water [...]
Talk About A Dream Job!!
Like every other time, my first day in my new office started with a ‘what if I die’ note. The HR asked me to fill the nominees name and how much of my death money [...]
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