I am not a regualar reader. I know nada about literature. Maybe I donno what I'm talking about. But I have seldom read a writer who grabs my attention so effortlessly. I have never stopped reading you after reading the first two paragraphs. When I am busy I don’t open your thread coz I know I can’t stop. You have a magic touch. I am too lazy to type so I will cut and paste some reasons from your own story to tell you why you are one of the most captivating writers I have ever read. This is just MHO. "Indira didi, who was trying to put my four-month-old son to sleep, glanced at the box before turning her head away. She looked as interested as she would be in a Star Trek convention. I don't know how I managed it, but I was even less interested than Indira didi." "But being a wisely married man, I did not admit it. I knew my Miranda rights. I did have the right to remain silent. Anything I said could and would be used against me by the law of marriage. I was well aware that she would use it against me every time I fail short of an equivalent job cleaning the Pressure Cooker: “Maile gareko kaam ra timile gareko kaam maa difference hera ta.” "When my wife did not hear anything from me either, she held the box up close to my son's eyes and said, “Babu timro maamu le ghotera safaa gareko hera.” The baby started crying." "Before I could face up to my wife's indictment, Ranjan opened the door and deci-humored us, “Samaf dai, I said 6 PM, Virginia time, not Denver time.” That line was not even remotely clever when I first heard it in 1996. But nothing cracks up Ranjan more than his own gags. I gave him some moments to applaud himself before explaining why we were late." "There was so much oil in each dish, that if Dick Cheney had seen those dishes, he would have proposed a unilateral preemptive strike." "I heard the two passionately talk in detail about the book they both had recently read: 'Victoria's Secret Catalogue, Fall Sale & Specials 2007 Issue'." Sumoff I donno what else to say. Hats off.