If you are struggling with poor stats, this is your opportunity to boost them — Dear Writers, What does an artist want the most? Appreciation for their art, yes?! It may be a painting sale for a painter, a packed auditorium for a singer, or a sold-out show for anyone in the movie business. Writing is art too. Yet, we know it’s the least appreciated of all…

Celebrate failures — First taste of failure When he had his first failure at school, Tez’s father took his entire family to dinner at the most expensive restaurant in the city. Everyone in the family was allowed to order anything they wanted. “Dad, you understand I failed today, right? In multiple subjects,” Tez couldn’t resist but question…

Is your father your friend, or is your friend your father? — One day, Tinu’s teacher asked the entire class to come prepared with an essay on “my friend.” Unfortunately, the teacher got sick the next day and school’s principal sent in a substitute teacher. The substitute asked the students to write an essay on “my father.” Tinu and his classmates complained…

It’s different! — Dear Dr. Burg, This is in reference to your article dated May 11, 2022 about the position of editor in your esteemed publication. FUCK THIS SHIT! Whaddup Mikey Boy, Listen, dude! I don’t meet any of the criteria you mentioned and won’t do anything you ask of me, won’t attend…

Where there’s a honk, there’s a way — Every driver in India needs three things. Good horn, good brakes, good luck. Driving in India is single-minded pursuit — point in the intended direction and keep going. Don’t bother about rules and lanes, nobody does. Passing To pass the vehicle in front of you, overtake from anywhere you can find…

I know my food. Or do I? — In India, engineers are made and destroyed on the night before the semester examinations. The more we practiced mugging the lessons the previous night and vomiting everything on the answer sheets the next day, the better we got at it. I remember it was my last year at college. I…

The cat is out of the bag — I promised myself this secret would get buried with me one day. Nobody — not even my family — knew of this secret until I may have spilled a bean or two in this story. It was a moment of weakness while I took a trip down memory lane looking…

An issue packed with drama, new members, editor’s picks, milestones, tips — Howdy Friends, As a kid who grew up in India, cricket was the game I felt attracted to, like many other kids. It’s not that we didn’t have basketball courts or soccer fields at school. We did. But cricket is a phenomenon back home. Every other sport gets overshadowed by…

Recalling the night when Yuvraj Singh did something extraordinary — A player can’t feel prouder than representing their country on the world stage. But, sometimes, the pressure of the occasion can get to them. Especially when the opposition has their noses ahead. In cricket, sledging is a common practice players use to disturb the concentration of the opposition players. Aussies…