Category: life

  • Seasonal story

    Which is your favourite someone asked and Mona smiled and turned her face. As Mona always believed every season has some beauty some story to tell some emotions to handle so choosing one particular season is next to impossible She loved all seasons and the person who asked her loved only Monsoon . She is…

  • Ate

    What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? Best advice is something which comes from your grandparents and parents or any other person who is close or even a celebrity in any field whose words of thought have impacted us overall. There is a lot of advice which has impacted my life in different…

  • In Depth of Night

    In Depth of Night

    It was night, in its depth, some rare sound of vehicles passing and the good train passing once around midnight. The sound of the train was prominent because the train track, although at a distance, was at the front side of the house and could be clearly seen and behind the train track was a…

  • Life Deserves More

    Life Deserves More

    What’s your home decoration style? I am sure you have been to several events or occasions with quite the number of people around, known, less known, unknown. There must have been talks of several kinds, life, profession, trending news among others. But whether you have observed it or not there is at least one person…

  • A Life Ongoing

    A Life Ongoing

    Mr Dabir looked at his old analogue wristwatch. He still had some time; he sipped at the tea in a disposable cup in his hand. He had sugar, hence there was no sugar in anything he consumed at home. This cup of tea with more than required amount of sweetness was closest to what he…

  • Promises and its joy!

    Promises and its joy!

    What’s a promise you made to yourself that you’ve actually kept? From childhood we are taught to be in a certain way, dress like a certain way, and of course feel like a certain way too in some kind of situations. Everything seemed pretty much pre-planned and hence a heap of promises actually kept on…

  • The Musical Investment

    The Musical Investment

    What is the best purchase you have ever made? When the phones were not that ‘smart’, they were just basic mobile phones. They could not do a lot, but nonetheless like any innovation, they were a remarkable development of their time. It might be a bit difficult to imagine today, but there used to be…

  • The Hidden Understanding

    The Hidden Understanding

    What’s the funniest misunderstanding you’ve ever been part of? Ajit had shifted to the metropolitan city to have a good life. He wasn’t a bachelor, he had a son, a wife and his father, the only living parent. Ajit knew he had responsibilities and he needed the extra income. Ajit did fine in the banking…

  • Four edges

    Four edges

    What app eats up most of your screen time — and do you even feel bad about it? You may recall, when you go back to stories and poems back in the 80s and 90s, there are more than a few stories and humorous poems on how the television was taking up our valuable time.…

  • The Better Ability

    The Better Ability

    There is a time. A time to realise the peak of our abilities, the extent to which we can excel or our vision, how big can it stretch within our frame of capabilities. Those who are in the pursuit of becoming better for the sake of their own passion and satisfaction realise this one day.…

  • History should never be repeated

    If you could erase one trend from history, what would it be? History is the events which help us to learn and unlearn things and react accordingly. History cannot be forgotten rather its teachings should be preserved forever so that we have a better future Events or trends of history which I dislike and perhaps…

  • What Makes Us

    What Makes Us

    Do you think we’re shaped more by our experiences or by who we are? Have you had a moment of light? The moment of beginning to realize or understand the life you are living. I call it light because that is how I saw it, when I was small one day I woke up late…

  • Changing Form

    Changing Form

    If you had to be an animal for a week, which one would you be and why? Back when I was in school, there was a time period I remember when fictional stories about people changing or morphing into animals were very popular. They were in popular books, they were in stories of popular movies…

  • Moving Forward

    Moving Forward

    What’s a piece of technology you’re convinced will exist in 20 years? Technology has been a gradual process. It did not just happen over a year or over a few months, it took us a long time getting here. This long time is something we often forget when we look at how rapidly things are…

  • Clicking Through

    Clicking Through

    Ajit was a bright young man; he was a teacher and the head of his subject department at a known school in the area. He was recently married and the thoughts of a beautiful and warm future occupied his mind. When Ajit would sit and prepare notes for the students in the evening, he would…

  • The Bitter Taste

    What’s a chapter of your life you’d title “The Hard Years” — and what got you through it? Our time, it has had its fair share of catastrophe and violence, it still continues to have in the present sadly. The problems, the issues, they never end. One day you are thinking, maybe the worst part…

  • A Cloudy Day

    Mr Choksi stopped his old scooter at the red light. The red light here was longer than the usual ones, but Mr Choksi kept the engine running as the old scooter did not have a self-start. Mr Choksi adjusted the messenger bag on his back to turn around and look at the sky, he could…

  • Untouched

    Untouched

    The bus passed through a road still wet from rain that had fallen half an hour before. Keshav looked happy, there was an effortless hint of a smile on his face. He was speaking less and being more thoughtful than usual. Naveen was used to Keshav wandering off in thought, Keshav did practise poetry like…

  • Where to stay

    Where to stay

    If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? I love to watch travel videos online. I always think that even with the means primarily being money, one cannot see everything and accepting that makes looking for the next alternative easier, which I found in all the creative travel videos the talented…

  • A Call away

    Is a little chaos actually good for us? The song playing was once Himani’s favourite and as she kept hearing it ahead, it once again called out to her heart. Himani added the song to one of her playlists in the music app. Himani was trying her best to distract herself. She was trying hard…