The Special 100 Irregular Sloword BirthMonth Festival 2021 Featured Guest – Mona Banerjee Mona Banerjee, from Kolkata, was born into a family of real literary giants; her maternal grandmother was Lila Majumdar, the well-known Bengali writer of children’s books. From her dad’s side, she’s linked to THE Tagores. Maybe this fueled…Continue reading→
Shopping for gas
After yesterday’s chaos at the dealership over the service appointment for the car (I’ll tell you about it some other time…), I had yet another episode of the Shopping Blues. So the minivan, Rusty, was severely short of gasoline. So much so, that the yellow “Reserve” light shone steadily and…Continue reading→
Will I Be a Book One Day?
The Special 100 Irregular Sloword BirthMonth Festival 2021 Featured Guest – Ashesh Mitra Ashesh is an engineer trying to navigate the world of healthcare. He likes books more than people and he agrees with Neil Gaiman when he says that we owe it to each other to tell stories. He is…Continue reading→
Unpopular Opinions
By The Peeved Punjabi [Note from SloWord: To deal with the subject of Unpopular Opinions, I had to call upon the Peeved Punjabi. So here he is. You have been warned…..] I have a few Unpopular Opinions. In this article I will chat about my Unpopular Opinions. Now, the fact…Continue reading→
Right Hand Man – Chapter 7
Gwen put away the stapler, pens, stenographer’s pad neatly into the top drawer of her desk. She opened the bottom drawer and pulled out the typewriter cover. She locked the drawer and put the key into her bag. She got up and walked over to the Superintendent’s office door. She…Continue reading→
The Divorce Announcement
The Divorce Announcement It was a very difficult and arduous decision. However, the divorce became necessary. Irreconcilable differences, you know. Months of agony, indecision and recriminations later, here we are. Documents drawn up. Folders created. Yes. There is sadness, yet, there is joy to be had for the future looks…Continue reading→
Autumn 2020 in Photos
The Autumn of 2020 merged into the tail end of the memorable summer of this very memorable year. It was mild and the usual changing of the season was gradual. I suspect, because we spent more hours outdoors than ever before, we saw the change as a gradual transition. Autumn…Continue reading→
2020 – The Summer of Discontent
Oh what a summer ’twas! The summer of 2020 will go down in history as a summer to remember and a summer to forget. In fact, the year 2020 will be spoken of in years to come for many reasons. For reasons of brevity (I know, I know! I’m turning…Continue reading→
The Visitor
DUSK Note from Ajesh: In a singular lack of care, I have made a mistake. Uma’s story was entitled Dusk. That was the filename I received. However, I’m a whole year older and thus failed to realize that simple fact. My deepest apologies for this grave and unseemly mistake! Mea…Continue reading→
The 2020 Irregular Sloword Birthmonth Festival
Yup! It’s ON, right now. All through the month of August, SloWord features posts from Guests in honour of this August Festival. It’s Irregular, it’s on SloWord and it celebrates the BirthMonth of Mother Teresa, Ajesh Sharma, Ajesh Sharma’s Mom, and all of Ajesh Sharma’s avatars viz: The SloMan, The…Continue reading→