“Dadi!" Riya rolled her beautiful eyes and sighed exasperatingly. "You really don’t know what a real adventure is! It is great to experience the unknown… jumping from heights and racing in water with the spray on your face...” She tossed her luxuriant hair with great...
Susan walked into the huge kitchen with its gleaming glass-topped stove and walnut cupboards. It was a far cry from her tiny place in Los Angeles. Looking around, she thought, her little studio apartment would fit into just this room! The deep aroma of roasted Jeera...
I stroked the hair from the lifeless body. The little cherub looked peaceful. It was all over really quick. The cough syrup must have done its job. The struggle of carrying her and giving birth to her was all too raw despite the three years that had gone by. I...
We walked into the din, too early for the previous train’s departure. The steady announcement of departure and arrival of trains in three languages- English, Hindi, and Kannada increased the noise. The vendors zipped in and out of compartments with their flasks and...
When the feeble knock came on the window, Rupesh thought that it was just something he heard in his head. He couldn’t be blamed for the mistake, for it was almost a decade since it was shut. The tales of most windows are intriguing. They are often the only connect to...
For Madhav Rao, the former minister of roads and transport, the day began after a night of excesses- a veritable feast with the best that could be brewed with the young nubile lass served as the dessert. His wife was away and most men who had the power and money and...
Anita paused long enough to discard her shoes after she stepped on a twig causing it to snap that sounded like a fire-cracker to her ears. She ran straight towards the booth bungalow* for she had to choose between being haunted by the resident ghost or being hunted...
Anne felt the feather-light brush on the underside of her breast and looked up sharply. She sighed at his studiously cultivated look of innocence. When Anne got onto the home-bound bus, she had quite forgotten the ordeal of her college-going days. Nothing much has...
After catching his wife and her paramour in flagrante delicto, all Shantakumar did was throw the man’s clothes over the tenth-floor balcony. He watched with bemusement as the clothes floated down as if in slow motion and landed long after their owner made a splat on...