On Christmas Eve, the smell of delicious food coming out of the kitchens from different houses filled his heart with despair. The lights on the Christmas tree f...
When your home is the streets of India there are many kinds which you get to see and hear. You hear a lot of sounds right from anklets to worn out soles of stru...
It was a warm morning. Most morning these days are warm. Mumbai is swarming with heat, no matter what season it is. Sometimes, I feel it is the accumulated heat...
As the flight touched the tarmac her heartbeats multiplied. She imagined several probables but could not extrapolate any of her past experiences to what she was...
A very warm hand rested on his cold one. Jamie looked up to see two very old eyes, looking down on him with an indifference. This indifference hurt Jamie more t...
I was not a ‘normal’ kid. The world always moved slowly for me. But I wonder sometimes, if that is such a bad thing. I saw the flowers as they swayed in the win...
I ran into Padma last night after eight years. It was a little strange because I used to love her once. Back then, I never had the guts to tell her and then we ...
“Sit,” he said. She couldn’t help but notice the weird curio all around the lobby. “Oh, I just like stuffing dead birds and animals and preserving them in a way...
Being a quitter is a good thing in very few contexts. Smoking cigarettes is one of them. You ask any smoker and he or she will tell you how badly they crave for...
I walked down the school corridor precariously. Balancing my textbooks in my hand, I forced my mind to only think about differential equations & quantum phy...
It was around 8:20. I was anxious. Mastu must be waiting outside. I waited for my parents to leave the dining hall and the moment they went, I rushed. He stood ...
Weary and hungry the runaway couple sat down in the shade of the humongous banyan tree. The miles of walking had taken away their strength to go any further. Th...
Suraiya was running as fast as she could. The sweltering day had already made her weak and dizzy. The show must have started, her over anxious mind kept on tick...
Sweat dripped from his eyebrows, drenching his faded shirt as Alok sat down in the shade of a chai shop.
“Bhaiya, ek chai,” he said, wiping his brow with the s...
In her mind they were perfect. They fought every now and then but then, every couple fights. It’s healthy. She knew he was the one for her. Stevie pampered Paul...
Jahnavi eyelids felt heavy with the summer sweetness of a hot sultry afternoon overtaking her senses. The scent of over ripe mangoes hung in the air, lending th...
Gypsies have been around for as long as one can remember, there’s also one from a fairy tale - The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Though this term is not new to any o...
For Sarah, her faith in God was before all else. However for her boyfriend a great high and some trance music sufficed the same. They were living-in together fo...
