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…

Mr Saha inverted the packet over his right palm and a few salted peanuts rolled out and fell on the palm. Mr Saha ate them and he looked ahead with an expression of extreme disappointment and he didn’t know what exactly disappointed him the most. Mr Saha was part of the IT department of a…

Brijesh had never seen an old ancestral house passed down through generations. His grandfather had sold everything when he decided to shift to a different city and the next owner broke the old house down and built a new one. So, when Azad invited Brijesh to his ancestral house, Brijesh didn’t think twice to consider…

Banhi had been living in the same rented apartment for the past seven years. She liked everything about the apartment. The beige colour of the building, bordered with bronze colour, the main window of the drawing room faced the park and invited breeze and it also let in just the right amount of sunlight. The…

“Have you ever imagined what it would feel like to slowly fall through clouds without the fear of dying or hurting yourself and without the usual physics of falling down? I am sure like me you have also noticed that emotion at various places like movies, shows or have read in books. When you imagine…

As the city bus turned around the corner Advay gripped the hand strap tighter to not sway away in the direction of the bus’s pull. He had been scrolling through phone for a while, but his eyes were requesting rest after an entire day in the office in front of a computer screen. Advay looked…