“What? How could he just walk away after thirty years of marriage?”… Without his wallet or belongings? Mayuri sat surrounded by people, noises, and voices, yet nothing reached her. It was the fifth day since her world turned upside down. Did they fight? Was the...
“Just stop this and get working!” The static air buzzed next to her ear! Caught in the Act, Shilpa’s heart leapt up to be enmeshed somewhere near her oesophagus. Her heart pounding, she guiltily closed her tab on Kunal’s Instagram page. The familiar flush started at...
“It’s remarkable that none of us know more about her daughter…absolutely no idea where she stays, her number …nothing…. zilch!” Lakshmi was upset and rightly so that one of the residents of her ‘home’ was suffering from a stroke which led to coma and none of...
I am situated at strategic crossroads yet common people 'see' me only when the GPS instructs them to take a turn at my location. And sometimes not even then. I am otherwise remembered on 14th April when I am spruced up and bird droppings are washed off me in...
He helped himself to the size-eleven shoes left outside the kitchen door of the farm house. He had just enough time to vault over the fence earning himself a deep scratch in his forearms before the dog managed to make a meal of his limbs. “I am getting soft!”...
It was the deaths that shook the neighbourhood. The cheer cast by the delayed onset of the southwest monsoon and the overnight downpour was overcast by the deaths in this otherwise serene community. The rain notwithstanding, the crowd assembled in sizable pockets...
Swiping left to right and back again, Sailesh was in a quandary. This decision-making caused him more distress than the outside temperature of 45° C. Here, he was seated in his bedroom sweating over which reel he should upload first- the one where the train...
Place: The mythological museum - Gopalapuri As I stood in front of a very realistic portrayal of Baby Krishna, opening his mouth to reveal the universe within, I was instantly transported to Dwapar Yuga. I was taking my time visiting the mythological open-air...
“I am tired of the bad press! Drinking black coffee makes you a psychopath!" The coffee lamented. “Well, caffeine is definitely not something to write home about!” This came from the turmeric, mighty chuffed at being touted as a 'super food' with...