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Fragile Strength
What is one thing you would change about yourself? The vision of the eyes opened to the dust covered concrete flooring. Sound erupted from within the throat but was greatly reduced as they tried to escape the mouth tied tightly by a cloth. The girl still in her school uniform raised her head to look…
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5 Foodie destinations of the world you cannot Miss
What are your feelings about eating meat? Meat eating or not eating is completely a personal choice. That is for all kinds of food .. food choices depend on the culture, nation, religion, ethnicity and many more features that come together bringing upon the sweetest food choices one can have. So I really don’t give…
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Handicrafted Joy
What are your two favorite things to wear? When what to wear comes as an option I think clinging to the country’s own handicrafts should be the best idea herein. There are many things actually available worldwide but smelling and wearing your own country’s products gives other kinds of joy. India’s rich cultural diversity and…
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Proposal unexpected
What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why? Taking the hardest decision is a part of life. Life is all about taking the decision and acting upon it. Today we will know the story of Meghna who had to make the hardest decision ever in life. The hardest and most precious. It was…
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A Dream Resolute
Shrey sat by the pond watching closely at the surface of water. His eyes caught the sight of a water strider gliding along the surface. A frog surfaced on the water and disappeared as a white brown coloured duck approached. Besides Shrey was a grocery bag which contained a loaf of bread, a tube of…
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The respite not required
If you didn’t need sleep, what would you do with all the extra time? Mondays are certainly not the most popular day in most people’s life, the effect of its approach even haunts over the latter half of a Sunday. Monday marks the beginning of another week of hard work throughout the day to achieve…
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Occasional Dislike
Name your top three pet peeves. I used to be one of those talkative children in school, who was always in punishment for not doing his homework and then there were others like me as well. So, we all became good friends since we shared this particular trait and experience of the aftermath mutually. It…
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Attached Attachments
Someone said to dream . Always dream.. be it while sleeping or being awake. Dream.. always dream. The dream which keeps you awake is your goal., is your desire is your manifestation… This was said by APJ Abdul Kalam the Former Prime Minister of India.. Today’s prompt is very important as we narrate the story…
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Beyond the Busy Streets
Beach or mountains? Which do you prefer? Why? When I was seven years old, I was sent to learn drawing. I never did become much of an artist but that period of time when my imagination was overflowing, drawing was an outlet to let it all out. I would draw everywhere, drawing pad, rough notebook,…
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Why do we eat?
What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals? Eating is one of those things which we all must do since our very survival and well-being depends on it. While some workaholics may claim they don’t really have any proper time for eating and those cups of black coffee are sufficient, I say they are in…
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Wooden Toys
If you could meet a historical figure, who would it be and why? The sliding glass door of the cabinet opened and a hand made its way inside. Arush picked out the old framed photo of his grandmother holding him as an infant. Such are the remnants of the days past, they always have a…
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How did the Smog take over?
Nirek sat working on his computers. His eyes moved over the parameters of the display area of the monitor and his hands coordinated on the keyboard and the mouse. As Nirek picked up the bottle of water to take a sip, he looked out the window. ‘The sunlight has been blocked again today,’ thought Nirek…
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Favourite Times
What’s your favorite month of the year? Why? Daksh reached for the dark grey suitcase of dimensions 55 x 38 x 23 from under the double bed of his bedroom. It was the last of the two bags and suitcases packed and kept there. Daksh’s wife Kadambi’s eyes had caught sight of the disappearing tail…
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Safe space
You know many times what we fail as a human being is creating a safe space . A safe space means to create a space where one can vent out without feeling judged. You know we all have been in situations where we want to say a lot of things.. to someone whom we can…
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Facade of Truth
Pallabh sat in the rearmost seat of a moderately occupied bus. He had his eyes closed. “Did you take the ticket?” Pallabh slowly opened his eyes and pulled out a hastily folded ticket from the chest pocket and showed it to the conductor. The conductor nodded his head and went ahead. Pallabh put the ticket…
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Through the veil
The video showed moving ahead in a long passage of an abandoned factory. The person who carried the camera ran through the empty passageway. The passageway was dimly lit with the help of the light from the streetlights which managed to come in through the old and broken glasses of the windows on the right.…
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Away from the False Glow
How do you manage screen time for yourself? I stood in a crowded metro train, looking out the wide rectangular window with rounded corners and fixed glass at nothing in particular, it was dark apart from the area lit by the lights of the tunnel placed a certain distance between each other. My eyes appreciated…
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The Mistaken Truth
The lights of the drawing room were off as the room was lit with the natural light which entered from outside through the open door of the balcony. The speed of the fan was slow as the cold was creeping in to signal the winter following. Aryash sat placing the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle…
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Shelter of Memories
There was an unusual silence in Mr Rathwa’s household. Unusual because silence was never a part of this household, at least as long as Mr Rathwa was alive. Mr Rathwa was a man of talkative nature and everyone liked to hear him. If people passed from the corridor of Mr Rathwa’s apartment at the right…
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Echoes of an Observant Mind
Some summers, in the late evenings, I stand giving my plants those additional sprinkles of water as a form of respite from the warmth the ground had been affected by all day. I never know how some of them will grow, and I do not know for how long they remain as a part of…
Early Morning Memories 