I was sitting on the mat, completing the remaining afternoon prayer, and somewhat feeling uninterested in life. As the dry lips uttered the remembrances of God and the tired finger counted along the phalanges, I vacantly gazed upward at the bewitching vastness of the sky; the shade of the windowsill on my eyes. The scenery of pure white strokes on that azure canvas happened to be oddly therapeutic for my overworked senses. My skywatching was, however, interrupted when I heard the door open. Mama had come to call me for lunch but for the glistening sunlight in winters, sat down behind me, on the bedside. Her seasoned eyes soon noted the masked gloom on my face and she pulled at her 19-ish daughter’s cheeks, laughingly advising her to stay happy; I returned an indifferent half-smile. So, sensing what she sensed and hence skilfully changing…
“The banging is only going to get louder. Should I open the door?” asked Kalyaan, frantic from the sight of the mob outside on…
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At twenty-six, was Gayatri Iyer a typical Tam-Brahm? Well-endowed, blessed with sparkling white teeth, her beautiful eyes were forlorn. She had renewed her passion…
He waited in the dark. It is said that ‘patience pays’.Well, if that were true, he would certainly have been a king by then,…
In the wee small hours of Wednesday morning, before the cock could sing its cock-a-doodle-doo, the alarm went offin a harsh crescendo, and Kushal…
“I want a pair of new shoes, Maa!” Aman, a twelve-year-old boy, demanded with an expression on his face which clearly told that nothing…
Gopi hurried inside the crowded Sonapur-bound bus, and looked around in vain for an empty seat. There was none. Have to stand all my…
We never really go away…we do come back…It’s not the religion we should love…let ‘love’ be our only religion… Imagine my astonishment when I…
