Sudhanshu Shekhar

blogs from Hyderabad

on Writing - Stephen King
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. Being a writer is *not* easy. You sit in front of the computer and your mind's frozen. You know you've the story inside you, it just refuses to come out. No amount of coffee (read coaxing) seems to work and thu...
Posted on 7 October 2016 | 10:07 am
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Trips to the railway station - Part 2
It was a cold wintery morning and Sneh would have loved nothing better than to be sleeping in his warm bed. Instead his father had blackmailed him into accompanying the driver to the railway station for picking up his cousins, who were coming from their ancestral village. Sneh hadn't met them ever b...
Posted on 12 May 2014 | 10:12 pm
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Trips to the railway station - Part 1
He was nine years old when he first visited the New Delhi Railway station. The dilapidated buildings, the big crowds, the garbage and the paan stains all around him made him question the sanity of the teachers who had planned this 'educational trip'. His batch mates however, were very excited to be...
Posted on 2 May 2014 | 5:12 pm
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