My Feeble Attempts at Fictions.
Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Dhobighat- Not the movie.

I come out in the balcony with a bucket full of washed clothes.
My husband gifted me a FBI fully automatic washing machine on my last birthday. But I hardly use it. I like washing clothes with my bare hands. Its not because I am too naive to understand how it works, it is because removing dirt from the clothes gives me weird comfort.

I start spreading the clothes on the cables. Mrs. Mehra from the opposite balcony smiles at me. She tries to engage me in a conversation, I smile and come back telling her my phone is ringing.
I come in and spot the dirty duster in the corner, I pick it up and start rubbing the fingerprints from the glass top of the center table. 
Will those dirty fingerprints on my body come off ever, I always wonder. 
My husband is here. He is going to see water dripping off the wet clothes in the balcony and ask me again to use the washing machine.
He will then ask me to get a dhobi come to our place and collect laundry because everyone does that. 
And I will start screaming on the mention of dhobi and faint. Like everyday.


Tuesday, 25 January 2011

When I did not take Dump in time

The morning was Cold. The alarm clock snoozed, and I took the first look on my Twitter Timeline. 
She was there. Enough reason to make my morning.
I pulled over my quilt.
That was when my phone rang and I realized I had an important meeting to look forward to in office and I was already 30 minutes late. 
I splashed water on my face and ran.
Everyone in the conference room looked at me as if I came straight out of my bed. And I had.
I connected the laptop to the projector and thats when I realized I could not wait for the meeting to get over to go to the washroom.
I fumbled in the wires and my laptop jumped from the table and committed suicide.
And, then something in my pants committed suicide.

P.S. This one is for @chulbul_pandi ;) 

Friday, 22 October 2010

Another Man

She was restless. A tear rolled down her eye.
He was clam.
'I know..' he said 'I am impotent' staring at his wife's protuding belly. He stretched out his hand to touch the foot impression of the child that was not his.


She entered with a smile into the labor room.

Monday, 11 October 2010

मेरा घर

'हाँ मेरे घर आजा, बैठ कर गप्पें मारेंगे..' पिछले हफ्ते ही तो अपनी सहेली से कहा था उसने.


'कल मैं अपनी माँ के घर में थी और आज अपने ससुराल..'
एक रात के अंतराल में उसका अपना घर कहाँ खो गया?

 
Tuesday, 5 October 2010

The Femme Fatale- V- The Final Move

 
Khanna Murder Case Solved
The much hyped murder case of Dinesh Khanna, the branch head of ABC Corp is almost solved claims the local police. He was found dead last week in his bedroom recovered by his brother Dr. Sahil Khanna- a graduate from Harvard School of Medicine, in the early morning.
He died due to an overdose of chloral i.e. a compound formed when brandy and water are mixed. In the first instance it looked like an accident but as the investigations proceeded, the crime scene looked suspicious. When the brother of the deceased was inquired, it was established that they had had an argument on the day of the death.
Though Dr. Sahil Khanna pleads innocent, the case looked shady when the colleagues of Dinesh Khanna confirmed that the brothers had been arguing for the past week in the office premises and it turned out that they had been planning to pin down an innocent girl Ms. Anjali Kapoor, the creative head of the ABC Corp who had an affair with deceased’s brother since past two months.
When Ms. Kapoor was probed, she admitted that she overheard the brothers talking and felt deceived. She had an argument with Doctor Khanna the week before the death and walked out of the relationship. She is reported to be in a trauma due to the broken relationship and is still under medication with a renowned psychologist of the town. However, the court has given a clean chit to Ms. Kapoor while Doctor Khanna is under judicial custody on non- bail able warrant.


Anjali folded and put down the news paper and smiled to her friend Dr. Sameer Mehra- Psychologist.
“Happy?” Sameer poked her.
“Elated” she replied smiling even wider.
“I still find it hard to imagine. A girl of principles like you managed to get the brothers down.” He exclaimed.
“I told you I am going to win this game by hook or crook. They thought they were smart enough to get me. But I got them first.”
“When you asked me about the modus operandi, I was doubtful if you could do that.”
“I had to. I still remember the day when I poured the high concentration chloral into their used brandy from the bottle I took with me in my hand bag on one of my so called dates with Sahil at their apartment. I knew I could be a suspect, therefore the break up drama had to follow a few days later. The modus operandi had to be simple enough for Dinesh to be framed if DOCTOR Sahil had to be the victim. Then all I had to do was to wait and watch. Though I dint know who would die and who will be framed. But I dint mind it either ways. They were both in the line. Albeit I am going to miss those awesome orgasms. And thank you Sameer for all you did for me.” She boasted.

They both laughed aloud.

P.S. I googled a lot to find an apt Modus Operandi, I wanted a cold blooded murder though, but still nothing could convince me. Then I had to settled at the most common one. Please bear with me.