The city lay, tired and resigned Roads-thin thighs-not enough Barricades placed in the middle The consensual violation unrelenting Raising, piling, building, structuring The skyward growing erections The cramp, the crowding, the narrowing The frantic thrusts of the harried bustle Waiting for the orgasm of liberation The sleek blur of long tailed engines Whizzing overhead in […]
Love and the knife
(First published in Earthenlampjournal, a reputed E-journal- vol1) Can love be facilitated by a knife? This is the story of two couples who came to my OPD, seeking my help. And I wielded a knife – a scalpel to be exact. Bobby and Anju arrived, both dressed in jeans and T-shirts. They were young and […]
The quick brown fox and the lazy dog
It was a Saturday evening and I was rushing out of the office to join my family for a quiet evening together. I spied Suresh at his desk, hard at work as usual. Suresh was a highly ambitious colleague who constantly tried to improve himself. “Hello!” I waved to him, and while passing, glanced at […]
The Magic Factor
I looked at Suresh’s nose. It must have been a very shapely nose. But now you could clearly see the outline of the flesh that was transferred from the forehead in two stages to replace the lost tip of the nose. Suresh was a young chief of security in an MNC in the city. He […]
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery- 2009
O! Listen to the lament of a Plastic Surgeon,
Finishing a case, for me, is not urgent.