Tag: family
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On Razors Edge
A young doctor’s emergency lesson: how two loose stools nearly ended a life, and how water and courage pulled an old man back from the razor’s edge.
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Bopa Rai and the Mantle of Memory
A young officer, Bopa Rai, returns home and, through a vivid dream, recalls a past life as a warrior under Vikramaditya VI. From royal courts to battlefields, love to loss, he inherits the “mantle of memory,” carrying ancient courage into his modern service.
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Fourteenth Breath
Fourteenth Breath Jul 12, 2025 Bopa Rai woke up fresh, yet anchored to the memory of drowning. For days, he had been navigating the murky depths of a delirium others could only watch from the shore. To the doctors, it was hepatic encephalopathy, a brain poisoned by ammonia from a liver that had finally surrendered.…
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A love Poem
In Indian mythology, origins are many and endings are merely resets. Truth arrives as a garland of stories—each bloom rooted in different soil, each stem winding in a new direction. Here, the goddess is not a single figure but a living force manifesting as mother, warrior, memory, and mirror. Women anchor this mythic architecture: they…
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How Are you
Breath #8: The Exhalation: The Hospital bed It was Covid time. The hospital was quiet, but never still.On the bed in front of me — a junior from my college, dying of liver failure.On the side — a 1971 war hero, now over 90, full of stories and stubbornness.He had adopted me like a foster…