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Unsettling Wishes
Little by little, just like placing bricks we build our home, our lives with our families. We add possessions to satisfy our own wants and as well as that of our family. Mr Gulati stood with a smile welcoming a new addition. Mrs Gulati, although smiling, showed a bit of apprehension, while their son Praneet…
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Some Differences
As the night was turning to its late hours. The number of vehicles and people on the roads faded. Omesh made his way home on his scooter. He had left office earlier than his office time that day. One of his childhood friends, Akhil had returned to the city. Unable to secure a good job…
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Some Fear
Mr and Mrs Shukla became a bit concerned when after a week they found their fifteen years old son Dahak still in fear of the unknown. Dahak was a fine boy, well fine by his parents’ definition was doing good in studies. He loved playing badminton and practising the synthesizer that his uncles got for…
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Something More or less
What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life? The long corridor led to the main balcony of the house and as the hands reached out to open the door. The view that presented itself was dominated by green and the different sounds of nature slowly made their presence felt to…
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The Required Stillness
What could you do differently? I have been reading this book about Kings of past and there was a fair deal of conflict and battles in it. Armies rushing down sea cliffs or through the forests or open fields to meet in a bloodied frenzy. When you have an imaginative mind, you wander off, away…
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Against the Eyes
If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say? There was a time when billboards were few and were mostly near airports, railway stations, bus depots and prominent tourist spots and marketplaces. Nowadays they are everywhere, there are three at an intersection of my small neighbourhood. I never paid much attention to them initially,…
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A Smiling Memory
Every time Laya opened her late paternal grandfather’s cupboard, she could feel the tears beginning to form somewhere within the emotions. It had been years since his presence was gone, but the wish to see him smiling once more never quite faded. Laya was using a large section of the cupboard now to keep her…
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Behind Closed Eyes
It was late at night, Pranit was returning from the hospital. He was there with his childhood friend Samar. Samar’s father was admitted. The air was mercilessly cold, but the car did a good job of keeping things warm inside. Pranit reached for the coffee in a disposable cup and found it empty. Just then…
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A Sprinkle of Difference
Arun found himself in an unusual situation, it had been a long time, a feeling that seemed lost somewhere in time. The usual days of life consisted of long office hours that ended when Arun returned home at 11 pm at night and sometimes later. The weekends passed through a struggle to rest and motivate…
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The Basketball 🏀 story
If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be? Every game has a story and if I have to write mine here it goes. Basketball is a game which I used to play during my school days quite actively and hence having a great memory on the same is so nostalgic…
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Politics means knowledge
How have your political views changed over time? If we look behind and see the 2025 we definitely understand a lot of the political landscape has changed and most importantly our notion of politics We have been attending a lot of book launches and when it comes to finance and Country’s economic growth book it…
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Book Launch we went to part 2
In our first book launch series I discussed how the idea about launch attending stuck into my mind and we went and here in this I would like to narrate how it was in the second book launch we went to. This honest series will help many to take the lovely initiative of going to…
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A Sound from Thoughts
It was raining heavily with water clogging the street and the hard-hitting drops keeping people restricted to wherever they were, maybe home or office or an educational institution or simply waiting under a shaded place. But Vasant was prepared for it, he knew these heavy rains very well and he knew how much his city…
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A Life Forged
Who are the biggest influences in your life? I do not prefer the heater in the car unless the cold is extremely unbearable. What I do prefer while driving with a friend is making a stop for a cup of tea or coffee. I think winters are a great season for having good discussions since…
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Unbecoming
It had been a long time since Tanvi’s family had walked into city life. Her paternal grandfather left the village right after his marriage and slowly most of the family followed, scattered across the country in search of a different kind of life. But the elder brother of Tanvi’s grandfather decided to remain in the…
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A Glance at the Sky
The day had been deprived of the complete intensity of sunlight by a layer of smog that didn’t seem to be moving anywhere. Prabhat often glanced at the sky when he stopped at the traffic light. It provided him a form of calm, but with the present condition the calmness had been affected. At the…
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An official Stay
Some monkeys ran around playfully on the roof of a house. Mr Markam watched closely from the closed panoramic window. What made the view unique was the old architecture of the houses around that had been maintained along with trees which remained untouched throughout the years. Mr Markam looked at his watch and it…
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The Delicate Palette
Girish started the morning early, he had to get to work and get done with some pending tasks. He walked along the society road still finishing up with the last of what was once a sandwich in a complete triangle. Just then his focus was broken by the sound of something crashing towards his right.…
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Left Out
At 3 in the morning, a pair of footsteps ran through the Singhal household. It opened the door to the backyard and rushed towards the mini swimming pool. Mr and Mrs Singhal woke up to the sound of water splashing and rushed out to see their son Ajit standing in water, still in his night…
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What Remains
Anjay waited for the bus at the stand. He was returning from the marriage of a colleague. He along with some of his coworkers had headed there after work. The bus arrived and there were more than usual people to tackle. Anjay had already let a bus go to avoid the peak of the crowd,…
Early Morning Memories 