Category: life

The darkness was still present and everything in the apartment was very still. If one could focus enough, the only sound that could be distinctly heard was of the clock and the old refrigerator. There was a brief sound of a door being closed. Swathi quietly stepped into the drawing room keeping her ears open…

Mr Handoo was one of those people who are not satisfied with the ordinary within life. He thought a lot of money ought to do it, so he became a successful banker. But he soon figured out that was ordinary too, because there were a lot of people working hard in life for different things…

One morning I woke up to the view of the same ceiling that I have been seeing for years on waking and I could feel something unusual right away. I was not well. An indigestion problem had left me feeling weak and not so motivated to start the day anytime soon. I pushed myself out…

Mr Kurup rotated the tap handle to stop the stream of water and he looked at the mirror one last time for the day. He wasn’t exactly satisfied with the ageing man he saw in the mirror and wondered how his wife did it, smiled like she always used to, always so bright and beautiful.…

If there was a tangible ladder for upliftment in life, everyone would be thinking of a way to get higher up while attempting to do so, meanwhile Mihir was one of those who just stood and kept wondering if he had figured it out or not, and meanwhile the world moved ahead. Mihir was an…

Walking into a silent home can have different meanings, the first obvious one being no one is actually at home and the second that something quite disagreeing of a great multitude had occurred inviting silence and let’s not go towards the third, the darker meaning you might be thinking of. So, Chaitali walked into such…

There were several questions on Ajay’s mind as he sat with a cup of tea with an expression that had lost any good meaning. Nithi entered the drawing room carrying a bag and eyes which showed the effects of crying. Maybe she glanced at Ajay on her way out, but that was it and she…

Mr Jamwal was feeling a little sedentary lately. He was spending a lot of time on the chair with his tablet. He had thought replacing his smartphone with a tablet would help him reduce his screen time but it had the opposite effect. Now, after work Mr Jamwal would find every excuse to sit or…

Sujay woke up to a morning of new light. The life he had been living for the past 26 years had come to a drastic change. Sujay’s paternal grandfather Mr Raghunath Thombre had left for the afterlife a few weeks ago. He had amassed a significant amount of wealth as a manufacturer of plumbing products…

The world outside seemed to be under a dim light as the cloudy weather prevailed for many days. The rain was ruthless rushing in with all its might, falling with only a few hours of break in between. The city wasn’t prepared for it, many roads remained submerged in water. The nearby river was slowly…

Keshav looked at his smartphone. He had reached the location on the map but he could not see the house he was looking for. Keshav was here to deliver a package to Mr Dasmunsi. It was one of the packages with the fragile written on the outside, so Keshav wanted to get it off his…

At night the park looks like a different place. As the white lights shine over the green grass and there is a hue of white on everything the white lights touch, the benches, the walking track, even the tiny insects that fly around and sometimes the occasional small birds. On such a night Divakar found…

It was on Pravin’s fortieth birthday that he was handed a letter to him by his father. The letter was written by his great great grandfather.  “How exactly did he write it for me?” asked Pravin to his father “Well, it was to be given to my next generation and since I am a single…

Deepak sat without any expression or emotion. His eyes lost into the screen of the computer; his hands moved over the keyboards to type and access the shortcut keys aligning with the movement of the mouse.   Deepak was a video editor and one of the clients of the company had suggested some changes, which…