Coffee Break

Coffee Break

She called me to the cafe next to my office. In the six months I’d returned from England, I hadn’t seen her at a single…

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The Yellow Tenement

The Yellow Tenement

From the street below, one could never tell that the first floor of #7 Mullick Road was a tenement. This was so because of the…

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Cast Out

Cast Out

The train stops in the dense night by a temple that stands on a hillock. A Banyan hugs the walls of the medieval temple where…

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Everybody Has Cancer

Everybody Has Cancer

Srishti stared at the flurry of activity from the window as she dialed her sister’s number. The bell had just rung in the school right…

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Of Love and Other Things

Of Love and Other Things

While this sounds uncannily like the beginning of a love story, let me tell you that it most certainly is one. Maybe it isn’t exactly the kind of story we’ve spent the majority of our teenage years reading under the covers and wishing we’d have the chance to experience, but it does involve someone I met at an unexpected point of time in my life and fell madly in love with.

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The Kohl-eyed Muse

The Kohl-eyed Muse

Sukanya first chose to remain silent. But if this long journey and its outcome were to get any better, she’d have to make some effort, she thought. So she said, “I’m just thinking about home.”

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The Wedding March

The Wedding March

My daughter and I watched the wedding planner. Ten minutes earlier, a few seconds before we were to enter the chamber where the ceremony was…

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The Cobbler and The Eagle

The Cobbler and The Eagle

The golden-breasted eagle’s home was at such heights that she had to dive several hundred metres to get to work. From her abode on the…

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Those Silver Anklets

Those Silver Anklets

It was one of those times in my life, when I actually had the time to pause and take an account of what my life…

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