Early Morning Memories

The memories that stay with us and the ones we create…

Tag: art

  • Stifling Retreat

    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…

  • Essence

    Essence

    What are your future travel plans? Travel ! When I hear the word it results in the understanding of multi-faceted emotions from nostalgia to present day travel. The story unfolds keeping in track of lifestory Travelling is said to be the most wonderful feeling after being together with people who love and care. For many…

  • Serendipity

    Serendipity

    The Sun rose and the morning paved the way for a new day. As the light of the Sun touched the trees of the forest, the daytime life in the forest was set in motion. At night the forest can be a place knocking at our fears but in the morning under the light of…

  • Touchpoint

    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…

  • Fortuitous Crossing

    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…

  • False Oasis

    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…

  • Film Session

    Film Session

    “This man in a black jumpsuit ran as fast as he could wearing what were clearly hiking shoes yet somehow, he was running like an athlete; and he was doing it with a heavy machinery inside his bag pack. He was being chased by some people who from the looks of it were professional hitmen…

  • Surreal Elation

    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…

  • Desolation

    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…

  • Broken Night

    Broken Night

    It was 10 pm. The cold of the winter spread to all the open corners.The streets had gradually lost people as they had preferred to go home early into the warmth of their homes. But going home early is not a The luxury of all, some people have to work late. They are not to…

  • Moving On… Away?

    Moving On… Away?

    A layer of dust had settled on the wooden table with dark pink sunmicaon top and dark blue sunmica strips on the sides. A pile of books wasdropped on the table and some of the dust flew off and out escaped aphotograph from one of the books. Arti picked up the photograph. It was one…

  • Notion of Reflection

    Notion of Reflection

    What time do you go to bed and wake up currently? The lens of the eyeglasses reflected the white light of the screen.The screen displayed a variety of different coffee drinks. It was anew coffee vending machine that the office had recently got. Unlikethe last vending machine, this one didn’t dispense tea or tomato soup,not…

  • Second Wind

    Second Wind

    What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life? The canopy of the umbrella folded as Dev pulled its runner beforeentering the narrow corridor. A few drops of rain had made their waydown on the back of the olive-coloured shirt that Dev was wearing. The metal door gate of the house as…

  • Poignant

    Poignant

    What is your favorite genre of music? Falguni stood staring at the top of a beetroot which peeked out of theground. She thought for a while and arrived at the conclusion thatmaybe it was time to take the beetroot out and ask my grandmother to cooksomething delicious. Falguni ran on the small path through the…

  • Believe it or not

    Believe it or not

    Describe your most memorable vacation. Vacations are always special when you go with your family members or close ones like friends. But in this blog I wanted to share 5 times when it was indeed magical… And magical to the memories. Vikrant the 11 year boy of Mr and Mrs Gupta is born and brought…

  • Secured Adventure

    Secured Adventure

    Every day is a new day and if we see and analysis properly everyday has the mix of everything. From the basic planning of the day of what to make in the lunch to how to make the career choices. According to me these in itself gives us the opportunity to be adventures to instigate…

  • Hightail

    Hightail

    The uncomfortable heat of the summer challenged a two 13 year old boyin their school uniforms. They were on their way to their homes. Biren and Nirvan lived in the same neighbourhood, their families havemoved to the area around four years back. They studied in twodifferent schools which were on the same route, thus they…

  • Woolgathering

    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…

  • Overcast

    Overcast

    One day, the onset of the afternoon was not in its usual colours. I slidthe two wine-coloured curtains apart to reveal the glass of thesliding doors behind. I switched off the LED bulb which illuminated amild crystal white light. The disappearance of the artificial lightallowed the clouded light of the sun to play a more…

  • Reminiscing About

    Reminiscing About

    Rushil could see the dirt that had accumulated between the teeth ofhis wide-tooth comb. ‘Why did I not notice this before? I use this comb every day. How longhas it been like this?’ he wondered. Rushil slipped his feet into his slippers and walked to the bathroom.He held the comb beneath the opening of the…