Category: life

“Where have you hidden it?” asked Nihal Pranit looked with wide eyes, sweat rolling down the side of his head. “So, you are not going to tell me,” said Nihal, “Do you know what I do to those who don’t listen to me?” Nihal raised his arm in a fold with his hand forming into…

The melting of Earth’s polar ice is warping the planet’s crust. Ice from the fracture zone of a glacier crashes into the ocean in Greenland. Scientists knew that when ice disappears, the crust underneath changes.The crust beneath, no longer under all that weight, slowly  backed up. This is called isostatic rebound.   In some high-latitude…

When Laban was ten years old, he had to move to another city along with his family. His father had been transferred there, although temporarily, but no one knew for how long. Since they were a nuclear family with Laban and his parents, hence everyone had to move together. They lived there for a little…

It was a busy Thursday evening. The marketplace was moderately crowded, with people coming out to buy things they needed and things they wished to have, while for some living around it was simply the route of their evening walks or other tasks. The roads weren’t that wide, barely enough for two cars to pass…

Kavish walked to the balcony of his house. While he was working, he noticed a few long drops of rain hanging to the glass of the window. He rushed to take in the clothes which he had placed on a drying stand outside. The rain was a light touch, one which went away after a…

There was a commotion in the village, the price of milk had gone up twice in a month and there were further rumours that it would go much higher. Bhola was in the middle of the commotion. Anirudh Kumar, locally known as Bhola was sent to the city to do something more for himself than…

On a bright, sunny and busy summer day, the traffic moved as on any other weekday on this particular stretch of road which was also the part of a highway. The traffic however declined in intensity since it was 11 am and the peak rush hour was coming to an end. There was a time…

When a working person wakes up on a working weekday. The rain outside can mean a lot of things. It starts with being fifteen more minutes of some light sleep. The air is comfortable and the sound of the rain sings to the ears. As the time to leave home nears, the mind has already…

Pradeep and Mr Devgan were the only content writers in a small studio. There were two other interns as well but interns came and went, no one stayed. Afterall who doesn’t want a place with a bigger establishment. So, at this time there was none. Pradeep had little desire to switch here from his previous…

There was a silence of a particular type in some apartments of a building. The results of class 12 board examination had been announced. One thing about these examinations is that, more than the child who is actually attempting the exam, it feels as if their parents are competing amongst themselves, their relatives or other…

The rain was heavy that day, even at 3 pm the sky looked like it was well past 7. The roads were starting to become partially submerged under rainwater which was rushing to the nearest opening into the drainage. The sound of heavy rain could be heard everywhere. Except for those who considered it an…

My friend Varun once told me something that I had not heard before. We met during internship and kept in touch later as much as time and life allowed. So, he told me about one of his classmates in school, Hemlata. The daughter of a restaurateur. This girl, she proudly claimed that spending money was…

The first time I met Mr Rajendra Dabral, I was sitting in a café having a burger and a cold coffee with one of my good friends back then. Back then even going to café and having something was an adventure, we were young school students with a very limited pocket money. Our neighbourhood was…

On Monday morning one of my colleagues who sat besides, looked a bit bothered. I am not the one to initiate prying into someone’s troubles on my own. Some might not agree with it, but as I have found, if you are a good listener people often open up about their thoughts or any form…

I miss my days of walking. Those days were at their peak when I was in high school. Me and those I called friends back then, we spent a lot of time in this neighbourhood walking our way around with conversations which wouldn’t have ended had the time not kept moving. We all had our…

I miss my days of walking. Those days were at their peak when I was in high school. Me and those I called friends back then, we spent a lot of time in this neighbourhood walking our way around with conversations which wouldn’t have ended had the time not kept moving. We all had our…