Anuradha Sridharan

My entry for 3WW languish of fierce storms velocity of ferocious winds the intensity mellows down the high tides, quietens their pace the full eclipse , crosses its prime the darkness, fades away in a whisker peace emerges and prevails the canoe gently floats, bound the horizon, reflecting bright red rays of evening sun stillness of the vast ocean sinusoidal effects of life

The first 50 odd pages were slow. The plot was going back and forth and it wasn't intriguing enough. But after crossing this initial hurdle, Tushar Raheja's debut novel "Anything for you, ma'am" is a humorous and interesting story. My hubby gifted me this book for my birthday. I hope he really meant the title :-) The Monday break for Ramzan provided me the right opportunity to catch up on this unputdownable novel. The protagonist Tejas is an IIT student who is not studious and loves to play pranks whenever he gets an opportunity. That's where the similarity with "Five Point someone" ends. What follows is a hilarious narration of Tejas's journey that would enable him to meet his love, Shreya. The coincidences and ironies that Mr.Fate throws up on our poor hero makes one feel very pity for him but at the same time, these twists are what makes the storyline very interesting. His encounters with Prof.Pappi, the master plan he chalks out to skip his i...

My contribution to totally optional prompt compulsions of the past conformance to standards follower of the herd never before a rebellious attitude swaying to society's ways vagaries of monotony hit her hard, "impatient, idealistic", they called her, she started to wonder purpose of her existence slowly she turned starts to question everything, opinionated, execution oriented eager to make a difference to her life and others' decided to chase her guts a liberated feeling an open window with the fresh breeze in, breaks free, opportunities galore for she had created her own walls one life, one wish!

My contribution to 3WW A quiet, peaceful evening monsoon rains simmered down, TV volume blaring away wrapping up a homely supper a screeching sound out of the blue I look around puzzled, moving in the direction of noise he peeks under the washing machine the tiny mouse well engaged on the slab with anxious looks, he shakes the contraption violently standing beside him, I start to scream the little devil runs into my kitchen confused and scared, hops on my spice containers a state of mayhem , I run to a safe place, the mouse giving me a chase slamming the door hard my voice still screaming, the little brat more scared than ever, hiding behind "I am not disarmed ", I convince myself the shrieking scream to the rescue he laughs, watching my reaction towards the unexpected new visitor

After the fabulous 3 day drive to Belur, Chikmagalur, Mullyangiri and Halebidu, my eyes are still relishing the visual treat. These places were part of my to-visit list for a while now. There are two types of vacations - one that is well planned and the other which is spontaneous. This trip falls under the latter. The key to breaking monotony is to do something spontaneous. Until Thurs evening, we were not sure whether we want to take this trip. But then we decided "Let's go for it!". I'm glad we took this decision. After searching in the web for reviews, we picked a home stay "Nature Craft". We should have been lucky to get a booking there in the last minute. After quickly packing our bags, we browsed through various maps and narrowed down on the perfect route. Although we planned to leave by 5:30 AM before Friday's traffic starts to pile up, we eventually left our home only by 6:15 AM. There was a lot of confusion from Kasturba Road to hit NH4 as we we...

My contribution to 3WW CLIII A sunny bright afternoon the scorching rays no respite humid breeze, howling murmurs wiggling shadows of trees whirling storm of dust the empty highways, a threat distant mirage, a glare hope in any shape or form luster of a tiny raindrop gently fell on my dry palm