Mayank Chhaya Daily
A 78-year-old man says he hates a woman less than half his age. I am talking about former President Donald Trump, 78, and current pop superstar Taylor Swift, 34.
Mayank Chhaya Daily: On course to wrapping up four books in 2021
I have just begun again going through four incomplete manuscripts of mine which were in various stages of progress when I stopped writing a couple of years ago. Three are novels—a political thriller, a historical novel and an imaginary conversation...
Working on my memoir 'A Tangential Life' like a spasmodic migraine
Jul 26, 2021 · I have been working on my memoir, which I titled ‘A Tangential Life’ more than a decade ago, in fits and starts, almost like a spasmodic migraine. It is a perfect title for my life as a journalist because during...
Mayank Chhaya Daily: My Socratic moment
This afternoon I went to a local mall after a gap of three years and perhaps longer. My not going to mall predates the pandemic. I went today only to refresh my memory of what it means to go to a mall.
The Debit Card - Mayank Chhaya Daily
A short story of mine. By Mayank Chhaya Raisin Kliff was at his favorite art store ‘Bristles’ to purchase some paint and canvases. He picked up the supplies and went to the cashier named Raven. She was in her late...
Mayank Chhaya Daily: Of a lifelong daydreamer
This verse was born in Hindi/Urdu on my morning walk today. I can tell you the precise time it was born but what would be the point of that? (Since I may have piqued your curiosity, it was born at 6.38 a.m.) As a lifelong admirer and advocate of daydreaming, I have …
Mayank Chhaya Daily: Was that duck being a dick?
This is a story from the non-human sentient world. On a scale of events that can change the world, what happened this morning on my walk was not even laughably irrelevant. It might as well not have happened. Billions of...
August 2024 - Mayank Chhaya Daily
This is the story of a solitary swan. It is a story as imagined by me and not narrated by the swan. Swans, as we all know, do not tell stories the way we understand them.
Mayank Chhaya Daily: Tibetan mandala and House of Cards
May 4, 2015 · All images from episode 7 of ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix Binge-watching season 3 of the Netflix hit series ‘House of Cards’ I was gifted a wholly unexpected pleasure in episode 7. It was Tibetan Buddhist monks creating a mandala...
Mayank Chhaya
I have been a journalist for 32 years, 17 reporting on India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and 15 on the United States. I have written two books so far, both biographies.