Bijli was hungry. Very hungry. The weather was depressing. It had been raining incessantly since the morning and the storm that thrashed the village the previous night had almost robbed them of their roof. Them, Rasik, Bijli his wife and their daughter Minu. And also the cow in the cowshed, which now lay in the [...]
Phone rings… Boy: Hello. Girl: Silence. Boy: Hello (with a sharp voice). Girl: Silence (thinking she may lose herself in his voice forgetting all about the rest of the world whirling around her). Boy: Hello!! (This time a bit furious and feeling disturbed in the middle of the night due to the time difference between [...]
Just because I am a scientist by training does not mean I do not believe in if it is meant to be it will be. Just because I was born in the east, does not mean I do not appreciate the west. Just because I live in the west, does not mean I will ignore [...]
Right now she is seated so close to me that I can feel her breath on my skin. In this blood freezing winter, I can’t resist longer against her heat-pumping eyes. She has been glaring at me for quite some time now and I am burning in the warmth of her intentions. I might have [...]
“Bangles…multicolored bangles ….new stone setting bangles…at very low prices…take a dozen and get half a dozen free.” Her rhythmic voice echoed in every nook and corner of the small village. She was Rangoli. Her tone penetrated every village household on a regular basis as morning descended. She carried a basket full of glass bangles, in [...]
Saman whimpered like an injured cat and tried to strain her pulping, swollen eye to get a glimpse of the world outside her window. She blinked hard at the sky aimlessly, craving to see a glimpse of star twinkling. But all she could witness was a darkened mass that bore no hope for glitters – [...]
The door opened up to her with an eerie cracking sound. She jerked and halted for a second. A withered and discolored curtain hung on one side of the entrance. The darkness around her echoed a touch of gloom and a sense of suffocation which she thought would choke her. Still she clutched on to [...]
Raised voices, angered expressions and bitter complaints. There were too many words spoken to make any sense. I, who always agreed, disagreed. She, who always understood, misunderstood. It was a rotten phone call. In utter confusion and helplessness of unexplained gestures; I asked her, “don’t you trust me?” And that’s when silence struck like a [...]
Today is the day when I’m going to make it happen; Mica McAllister said to himself, his thoughts preoccupied as he walked along with Allie Carmen. It was a perfect autumn afternoon, tall trees standing proud, over their heads. The sun peered teasingly out of the clouds with unexpected light showers dampening the atmosphere. As [...]
I had been feeling the unseen presence of those enigmatic insects flying around my room for the last two months. I kept wondering where they came from. Every day I would perish a few of them, but the very next day, they all came back again. I tried to clean up all the mess in [...]