The Imagined Universe

Park Place Station, New York City.
It was late in the evening and I was returning from work.  As I rushed through the desolate station to catch my 3 train, I noticed a young man sitting near the steps.  His briefcase lay a foot away from him, his tie hung loosely and his face was buried [...]

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She was cleaning out the shoe closet and neatly organizing all the shoes in it.  There were two things that struck her - first, each cubbyhole could hold one pair of her shoes, but only one each of his shoes.  So his shoes were occupying twice the space that hers were.  Second, she also realized [...]

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Reading between lines does not come easily to me.  Part of it is my sheer inability to comprehend anything but the spoken word, and then living in the US doesn’t  help either.  I say what I mean, and I think others say what they mean.
Occasionally, my Indian genes will tell me that there could be [...]

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Bollywood scripts have nothing on this.  An eight year old boy “married” his “special friend”  the day before he died of leukemia. The wedding came complete with rings, vicar and certificate.
I feel very sad at the passing of the eight year old boy.  He definitely did not deserve to die at such a young age.
But [...]

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Two surgeons were talking in a London hospital over a cafetaria lunch.
Dr. Rob was staring intently at his soup bowl as if he hoped to find Nessie in it. “I hate this new performance based bonus system” he said.
“You mean NHS’s idea of giving us a bonus for every patient who doesn’t die on the [...]

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… involves more appliances than you’d think.  Here is how it goes:
- Pack clothes: Realize that 4 pairs of shorts, 1 pair of capris and 3 pairs of jeans have spots of mulch, grass and mud on them. You can see we spent last weekend gardening and changing attires more frequently than Bollywood actors.
Wash jeans [...]

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