Once upon a time there was a contest in the bird kingdom to carry the most precious things in their beaks/wings and present it to the king. The bird which carr...
Can sleeping with a person who has migraine issues transmit the ailment to you? That was the question I had in my mind while I was struggling with the excruciat...
Legend said that on the night of full moon, some people went crazy. But that was just a silly piece of lore which no one really believed in! At least Shekhar, S...
The other word that misled me for a long time when I was a little boy was animal husbandry. It seemed clear enough; one looked for a husband for one’s animal. W...
The clock chimed again and she could hear the front door opening. He had let himself in, the one aspect of city that she was okay with. It would have killed her...
Reality away from the seashore
The empty air around her only mocked her in reply. This air was of the cities, it witnessed a million frail people like her bein...
She ran her finger on the edge of the table. She heard a squeak, the squeak of a freshly cleaned surface. Satisfied, she got up and made her way to the huge, in...
“Oh God, not again”, he groaned silently.
As Mohit unlocked the door to his apartment, he could hear the faint sound of his mother’s favorite TV serial, Rishta...
I thought about you yesterday afternoon. I visualized us both standing in a field. But instead of sunshine and flowers all around us, an abyss had opened up bef...
“So warm,” Rian thought, “I could lie here all day.”
Rian’s routine was the same every single day. The sunshine tickled his face each morning. He stretched his...
Her dollhouse was a miniature version of her perfect family. When papa went to work, she removed the papa doll out of the house and replaced him back after a fe...
As he looked deeply into her green eyes, all his tensions regarding a mother who became prey to lung cancer, and an abusive father vanished. He ruffled her flam...
I can’t breathe anymore….. I look at the sarpanch with hopeful eyes but I don't know what can be done.
My anguish...
I think I am drowning. Drowning in the ...
Ravi was no extraordinary man. He was a young fellow who worked as a driver to sustain a living. Coming from the lower strata of the society, his family could b...
On a sunny April night, Naunet screamed in labour which seemed to ring through all of Dahshur. The first baby didn’t create much hassle to come out. But the nex...
I saw her again, and all the thoughts started coming back to me again. Only this time, I wasn’t the naive character. She was wearing a Blue top with a magenta s...
Since morning Adria had been busy with the preparations. She wouldn’t let anyone help her even a tad bit. Adria had to do it all by herself. She did not want to...
Poornima was fed up. She was just completely and utterly fed up. She loved her son Arun, she really did, but sometimes, she wondered what on earth had possessed...
She promised to never forget him, but fate had a way to prove her wrong. Sara and Shaan were college sweethearts. They knew that they could never be together as...
He woke up, rolled over, and reached for her assuming he is still in the brothel.
She wasn’t there, and would never be again. I sat back to recall what had ha...
Doomsday
Three months later, the Rain God was very angry with our village. It rained heavily in Kurka flooding the river, whereas the neighbouring villages lik...
Ten resounding slaps and a hundred another bruises later, she somehow gathered herself together and got up. The cuts in her thighs pained. She endured this ever...
After drinking the last tumbler of Somras, I decided that I should retire since I had a long journey the next day. I had to go on a long voyage to Sumeria. My f...
Maa, sitting on her bed in Gariahat, Kolkata missed 19-year old Shonali who had recently left for Aligarh Muslim University to pursue her passion for medicine. ...
Now, he was in a hurry to get the pyramid work completed as a lot of time was wasted already. So, he increased our working hours, thereby shortening our sleep t...
