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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Desolation
Paritosh opened his eyes from a slumber. His head was resting againstthe window bars. He looked outside, the train had come to a stop at astation. Around 40 years back from now, when the air, rivers and lands weremuch cleaner, the climate and temperature were more favourable andplaces weren’t so crowded, a train journey in…
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Woolgathering
The exterior lights of the apartment building temporarily abandonedtheir illumination as the morning light entered. The smartphone kepton a bedside table came to life with the sound of piano playing andbirds chirping. Its screen displayed 5:30 am along with a ‘stop’ and‘snooze’ virtual buttons. Mr Guha removed the eye mask and proceeded to swipe the…
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Sprinted
It was a silent morning, still in its early phase. People who workedafar or had to start early due to their profession were already inmotion, along with the conscious and motivated people who were out fora morning walk. Dilip, a 38 year old man was also one of these walkers. A new yearresolution had set…
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Skilled
A child learns each skill with practice, patience and more practice and this way Shreya learnt everything since her childhood. Be it going to the dance class and learning dance from the age of 2.5 to learning to paint from being a toddler. She learnt it all… But cooking always seemed like a tough nut…
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Crescent Night
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life. The night had fallen. The otherwise primarily vacant and partiallydark road due to presence of trees with long wide branches full ofleaves, were full of light accompanied by the sound of movement and humanwords. It was the day of the weekly market. A…
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Chasing Butterflies 🦋
The light from the sky touched the ground. The green of the grassreached its peak of vibrancy. The world started waking to a new day. Ira pressed her palm against the glass of the window. She had beenstanding there for a while. She had seen how, the way the sky feltchanged as the morning light…
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A Fresh Narrative
Vipul wiped off the sweat from his forehead. His handkerchief had served its purpose well. The Sun was showing no mercy today. The afternoon heat had left the streets less populated. Vipul was returning from an interview and was walking to the nearest metro train station. A gust of hot wind with dust appeared around…
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