• Kunda Kunda Pani

    Kunda Kunda Pani (Featuring Aishani) Lyrics: Kunda Kunda Pani; Munda Munda Buddhi. Approximate Meaning: Different water in different lakes; different minds in different heads. YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/user/kohiraikoan SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/kohiraikoan

  • Two Strings

    [Note: It is advised that you read this story only after reading Project ‘Vase with Irises’.] Do you remember the Harpists playing the guqin, an ancient Chinese stringed instrument, in the 2004 action comedy ‘Kung Fu Hustle’? I am highly fascinated by those melodious assassins plucking their magical guqin’s strings to produce lethal swords and …

  • Project ‘Vase with Irises’

    About eleven years ago, I secured a comfortable job at the Ministry of Physical Planning and Works. I got a desk, a chair, a cabinet, a room, and two subordinates at the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage.  I was grateful to the Minister, who hails from my village, for providing me a decent position …

  • The Free-range Rooster

    Last spring, six of us friends decided to go to a nearby hill for a day of hiking and merry-making. We set out for the hike early morning and, when the time for lunching arrived, we were several meters above the civilization of the city and nowhere near a decent, or any, restaurant. Our only …