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Ephemeral Moment
Written by Anuran Chatterji Two feet wearing slippers moved down the steps in rapid movement. As the feet reached down the stairs and halted, the right hand moved ahead to move down the bolt and push open the wooden door. The feet stepped out and the vision wandered over the road in front, first to…
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Wistfulness
What TV shows did you watch as a kid? As a kid for us tv was a very essential part as we could watch tv only for a certain period of time and not whenever we wanted. There were no mobile phones and this digital entertainment factor was very limited and restricted and that somehow…
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Recipe! All I suppose
What’s your favorite recipe? Being a foodie it is very difficult to choose a favorite dish. Very difficult! Also our nation to our anthropology our ethnicity depends on the food a lot. Food plays a major role in our livelihood from our emotional health to our physical abilities, food is extremely co related and co…
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Calling of the mountains 🏔️
Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. Hi everyone a very warm welcome to our website Early Morning Memories and thank you so much for being with us in this journey of writing stories and personal documentation.. without our audience we are no one. So a huge Thank You! Today’s prompt is…
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A Travel Memoir: Darjeeling and Places around
Dhotrey, Darjeeling, Dawaipani and Lamahatta A detailed Tour experience of Eastern India Dhotrey, Darjeeling, Dawaipani and Lamahatta Written by Sayoni Mahapatra Chatterji The last one week we travelled and created ample memories and today we finally got time and solace to write an extensive blog on our experience of the travel. We travelled for 8…
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Ennui
List 30 things that make you happy. This seems like a very difficult question! 30 things which makes us happy! Happiness is a very subjective thing . How one sees and shapes happiness can be extremely different or over similar to someone else… Happiness is something… If you ask a child he or she might…
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Can we really sell these products?
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? The magic shop! I would definitely sell powers to people. No! Don’t get me wrong here… Power means to give security to people through the magic potion. There will be three types of magic potions one for economically poor people, one for…
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Futile Efforts
The morning was as usual as any, early still. Some people had started coming out of their resting place in their walking shoes and some in their running shoes. The ones in their formal shoes were some poor souls who were leaving for work, one of the downsides of a more demanding job. Mr Doshi…
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Rumination
By Anuran Chatterji Early Morning Memories The rain had washed away the humidity from the air; the sunlight was clear and the air was comforting. Plants and trees took this as an opportunity to grow vibrantly, spreading wide. Dipta sat on grass in the park. The park was right in front of her three floored…
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Isolated Travel
A bus stop in a wasteland or desert area is not the same sight as the sight of a bus stop that can be seen in a city with all the bright advertisements and a number of commuters waiting to catch a bus. If one saw this stop, then for a moment he/she might…
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Stifling Retreat
The day was beautiful, the flowers were in bloom, the trees were in greens. Children had gone to school, some adults were hurrying for work, while some had stepped out to buy the daily essentials and so had Dipesh. Dipesh had left his work, he had found something to keep him going for good many…
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Essence
What are your future travel plans? Travel ! When I hear the word it results in the understanding of multi-faceted emotions from nostalgia to present day travel. The story unfolds keeping in track of lifestory Travelling is said to be the most wonderful feeling after being together with people who love and care. For many…
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Brief Exchange
People gathered on the ground outside the stadium to attend the food festival. The food festival was the first event of its kind to be organised by a popular fast-food chain and one of the greatest singing talents in the nation was going to perform to promote the event. His pictures were all over the…
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Serendipity
The Sun rose and the morning paved the way for a new day. As the light of the Sun touched the trees of the forest, the daytime life in the forest was set in motion. At night the forest can be a place knocking at our fears but in the morning under the light of…
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Touchpoint
Nirupam instructed the vendor at the paan stall on how to prepare his paan, and the vendor followed. He took a betel leaf and added a small amount of slaked lime to it, then he added gulkand, two small sachets of mouth fresheners and some fennel seeds and cardamom. He then rolled the betel leaf…
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Fortuitous Crossing
The new green grass of the park stared back at the Spring which had flown in to revive the green in all the trees and plants around. The flowering plants on the borders of the park swayed in colours displaying their beauty through the blooms that adorned them. Many adults were worried by the heat…
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Belated Clarity
The mop was drenched in a bucket full of water mixed with floor cleaner. Then the mop was pulled out and rested on the floor before pushing it to wipe the ceramic tiled floor. The mop kept going ahead, moving against the floor and then it stopped and turned left reaching out to the innermost…
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False Oasis
A clear sunny sky, balmy breeze, some rock and roll music, a pair of spiffy sunglasses and fingers moving in a tapping movement on the steering wheel of a new car. Samesh was having a memorable moment of his life. The car was a carmine red compact SUV with a white roof. It was the…
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Film Session
“This man in a black jumpsuit ran as fast as he could wearing what were clearly hiking shoes yet somehow, he was running like an athlete; and he was doing it with a heavy machinery inside his bag pack. He was being chased by some people who from the looks of it were professional hitmen…
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Surreal Elation
The door of the bedroom opened and Mrs Bhimwal stepped in. She parted the curtains and the light of day flooded in revealing a colourful wall of the bedroom with different colours of butterfly and flowers. She moved towards the bed and folded the open blanket from its top end to reveal a sleeping 11…
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