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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I fell in love with a girl in a book. See how stupid I am. I climbed right into the book and went to where she was, sitting in her chair. In one hasty move I co...
She had always been a small town girl at heart. Growing up in a relatively small city, she had become used to the quirks of a little city. But then came the big...
In the future, you will be able to buy and sell time. For example, if you feel like going to bed early tonight, you can ‘sell’ the hours you don’t plan to use t...
Once upon a time there lived a cat named Mutt that was raised by dogs. When he was a baby, he was very popular with the other dogs. He was just like them: energ...
Some people are so sincere and dedicated to their work that work is life for them. They worship their work and live for that. Dr. Biswas was a young lady who he...
The Monday meeting was about to begin when Steven's phone rang. His father Martin had the knack of calling him at all odd times. “I'm sure he can't find the rem...
As she walked into the darkness, the silence enveloping the atmosphere deafened her. She wanted to cry but tears wouldn’t come out. She wanted to catch a last g...
