Storylets

  • The Station

    A tattered station, a lonely platform lined with banyan, neem & jasmine trees, a single train, a vendor serving meals – a gentleman is stationed there. Other stations had a… Read more.

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  • The Funeral

    Scorching sun in the sky. The customary ritualistic showers were missing. The otherwise desolated place had a crowded look. Trees whispered of their presence. Black was the colour of the… Read more.

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  • Tryst With The Soul

    It was a clear sky that day. There wasn’t any faint hope of rain. Suddenly, it started raining with a petrichor effect. The day was October the second. A national… Read more.

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  • The Writer

    Sparrows twittering beside the bedside window. Young lads in their teens, playing with kites. A god riding his elephant, overlooking the work in progress. The work was to curve out… Read more.

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  • B I R T H

    She opened the diary. Re-read the pages. It seemed like whimsical writings of an adolescent. January 12, 2001- the lady graduated from college; easy, fun-loving, skeptical, cynical and childishly prudent.… Read more.

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  • The Bridge

    12 years have passed since she visited her school. She has herself become a teacher now. Yes, a teacher; but not quite the way she had expected. Her “gurudakshina” have… Read more.

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  • Labels

    Its been almost a year since she had put pen to paper. After a dull breakfast of cereals, she sat wondering. Suddenly, last evening’s conversation dawned on her. Her father… Read more.

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  • The Poems

    It’s been 25 years she is out of business. as she penned the last line she remembered her first customer. she met him 5 decades ago. she was 11, he… Read more.

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  • The House

    cloud covered sky. silence in the air. 2 sparrows communicating with each other. one sitting on a coconut tree. the other one on a barren tree. between them stood a… Read more.

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