Agantuk's Desk – Explore, Implore, Reverberate
Explore, Implore and Reverberate
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Category: Storylets
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“Be careful, don’t kill yourself!” glared the conductor. “It’s all right. I am a pro at this”, said the lad hurriedly running off from the moving bus. He was running late for work. A recurrent problem in his daily life. It has become so mundane that his office colleagues has become impervious. Though it effects…
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2 beds – one wore a veil of red while another had a shield of white. The first one was to start a new beginning while the second one was the beginning of a beautiful end. In reality, which was the beginning and which was the end? Are they one and the same? Only the…
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A 25 year old woman prepared herself for the future. Each day she spent hours trying to read the Braille and manoeuvring places with closed eyes. She was enjoying the process, learning with glee. On a certain morning, the disease onset was abrupt. Her joy of learning turned into an agony of a lesson. Trauma…
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A bright sunny spring day, a cuckoo’s call woke her up. It sang to her everyday- from spring to autumn; through morning to afternoon to evening to night. Kind of like a forlorn lover speaking in his leisure time. Today is the second day, after the vernal equinox. She came out of the waiting…
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A drunken middle-aged soldier and an 11 year old girl; neither knew each other’s language. He spoke in nepali-hindi. She heard in bengali. Neither talked yet both listened. He spoke of a girl who resembled her. She heard of a future – a distant acquaintance she’ll betray. The mountains connected them.
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2 violations, 4 years apart – the difference in them was not that of age but of experience. Both were illegitimate- first from a stranger, second from a close one. The former graced from behind, the latter near the front edges. First was coarse and dry while the second was soft and moist. Kisses they…
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Two stalks ,one bud, many petals, slender sepals – flowers they were still. Standing bright in a barren land. “Infected or evolved?” wondered the bees. Quakes knew the answer. Alas! they chose not to speak. Humans they have become at last. Uncomfortable with the truth.
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In her house, there stood several trees – gulmohars, jamuns, jasmines, coconut, mango, jackfruit etc. Yet she was particularly fond of one – a type of gulmohar standing wearily at the edge of her neighbour’s house. The tree stooped to kiss the earth beneath its feet. Its branches and leaflets penetrating the girl’s window…
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A restless mother, a fatigued father, a noisy house awaited for their son. An illuminated town celebrating the return of their prince. With time their memory of him grew fainter. To them he was still the righteous man as 14 years ago. In their hurry, nobody noticed a dark-complexioned girl awaiting for his master. Her bruised hands…
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2 children, twins from birth. Grew up to be adolescents miles apart – one stout, another feeble. The carriage came – to one at 7 and to the other at half past 7. At death they resembled each other. The confused coroner swapped their graves. At the gates both knocked the door. There was only…
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