Promise….s!!

I thought they meant something, I thought they were the world. They were the smiles, they were the hope. They were the factors to drive the soul. But one summer noon, It all went in vain. She made the decision and wiped all to go plain. The love and affection succumbed to The practicalities […]

Sudha and her Mid Life Travel

Life has its unique way of teaching and introducing scenarios to us humans. We, humans, are a mere participator in her grand set up, with absolutely NO, to almost no control in the orchestration of events. And this is the realization that happened to Sudha Maurya, a middle-aged lady, a mother of two. She belongs […]

The Penultimate to the Ultimate

Life has this intrinsic tumult to grow and be creative. And like all else, they too vary with the native. The fabricated meanings spare none, Be it a prince or a pauper or a nun. First the growth makes its impact, Creates the necessity and makes you trapped. Be it career, be it […]

Vengeance

I placed the glass on the white marble table, near the white and red envelopes, took a deep puff of much needed fresh air, which was oozing out from the translucent meshed white muslin flying curtains. I didn’t exactly knew whether it was the booze, which forms my permanent diet now, or the heaviness felt […]

The Real Treasure

This should have been a very happy day for Meera, like her other college colleagues, who graduated from the MahilaSamiti University, a small time women’s university in Faizabad. Everyone was happy that they graduated, the first hurdle of their life’s main agenda, i.e. getting married, is accomplished. But Meera, cause of her usual sad and aloof nature, was […]

The Dilemma

It was dusk. The purple clouds were all over all ready to give way to the dark musty nights of the village. The nights here are usually silent with clear faint noises of some far off distant stage program, nautanki, as the localities used to call them, which has always been there mysteriously since Hari’s […]