Mani Padma

OUR DESTINATION. HARSIL. A BEAUTIFULLY CONVENIENT STOPOVER EN ROUTE TO GANGOTRI. EASY TO MISS FROM THE HIGHWAY AS CAN BE SEEN… IT’S A SETTLEMENT OR A CANTONMENT AREA JUST 44 KM RETURN JOURNEY FROM GANGOTRI AND 74 KM FROM UTTARKASHI THE ENTRY TO HARSIL. THERES IS A GMVN HOTEL AND ALSO SOME PRIVATE ONES....
Sip More »

  It’s Saturday afternoon. After a hectic week in classes and tests there is a respite for two days. She shampoos her hair, dries it. Gets ready… Wears the pale pink flowing dress… Some lipstick…Some perfume…. 5’0 clock at the watch… time for him to arrive at any moment… for her first date… she...
Sip More »

Dodging his pursuers he reached the scene of his first crime. He remembered with a smirk the teenager. Raped and murdered. Suddenly, he sensed someone nearby. Shocked, he saw her, standing there, arms outstretched, on fire. Terrified, he screamed! “Burn in hell” her mother hissed, opening her teary eyes, ending the nightmare. But the...
Sip More »

  My expectations were very much raised for this sequel to TWILIGHT and I was so eager to lap it up, that I finished reading it in a night. A feat I had achieved only once earlier i.e. in HARRY POTTER and THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. But the pace of the sequel was sedate comparatively....
Sip More »

Industrialization and progress! How they change lives! Some intentional, some unintentional. He was in peace until they encroached his space. Terrified and nowhere to go, he killed, but he was branded the terror. He is doomed now. They have planned his execution well. Death is on its way for the Man eating tiger of...
Sip More »

  He left, satisfied only after she came to the window. When life was about to defeat him, she had appeared at the window, her eyes filled with innocence and hope, miraculously giving him a fresh lease of life. Now he sought her eyes daily for sustenance. Little did he know that her eyes...
Sip More »

  Bhudeb lost everything in the floods. Nobody gave him anything anymore – neither money nor work. In desperation he decided to steal. He saw a man parting away slightly from his bag. He snatched it and ran. The bag exploded. Bhudeb will never have to beg, borrow or steal again. This  55 fiction...
Sip More »

It is so easy to criticize something, someone but it is equally difficult to be honest and think up plausible reasons for liking something immensely to the extent of appearing biased… I was overwhelmed by a strange feeling after reading TWILIGHT. A feeling I could not put my finger into. What was it? Was...
Sip More »

  This book review is written by Mani Padma . Mani Padma is an avid book reader and a follower of GingerChai. When I grabbed a copy of the book “Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of The Game” I was hoping hopelessly a sequel to the Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon and at par...
Sip More »