Tag: Bengali india

  • Rapport

    Rapport

    So, my grandfather paid an unbelievable amount to get this clock andit came here. ‘When I am gone, you are going to take care of the shop and the clock,make sure both of them stay in the family unless it’s a matter of lifeand death,’ my grandfather had told me, and that’s what I am…

  • Gravel

    Gravel

    The sound of the tire moving over the road with gravel on it. Girikstared at the passing structures in the form of buildings. It had beena longer drive than what Girik had expected. This client had requesteda home visit to understand an investment policy. The client was anindividuals with considerably high wealth, whom the firm…

  • Unwanted Silence

    Unwanted Silence

    ‘Where is all the water going?’, seven years old Aadhavi asked heruncle Mr Mehra while staring at the wide river with ever speedingwater. ‘It is heading towards the sea’, replied Mr Mehra. ‘So much water goes to sea, the sea must have a lot of water by now..’said Aadhavi. Mr Mehra smiled, ‘Yes, it has…

  • Losing and Gaining

    Losing and Gaining

    What sacrifices have you made in life? We make sacrifices in life when we let go of a chance at somethingwhich we hold as being important to us, but not as important as thechoice we make instead. What exactly makes something a sacrifice? Everything we do in ourlife, has a cost, with ‘time’ being one…

  • Musings…

    Musings…

    Are you a leader or a follower? Relationships with meditation have changed over time and today I would like to explain the situation which I currently have with meditation. When I was a child meditation was an alien term and knowing it was through the visiting of several religious places …  The common thing or…

  • Chasing Butterflies 🦋

    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…

  • Another Morning

    Another Morning

    The dining table was dressed with food items for a Sunday breakfast.13 years old Darika sat with a sandwich in her hand looking outsidethe window, lost in a world of her own. Mr Garg, Darika’s grandfather sat opposite to her. The majority of hisface was covered by the newspaper he held in his two hands…

  • Choosing the Right

    Choosing the Right

    Do you vote in political elections? Election Electorate and constituency are the words Prakriti has read and known from the very childhood.. Why? Because on a specific month or around in each year or each two years she used to see political parties go for their own propaganda.. Then one fine day her parents, grandparents…

  • Expressions speak louder than Emojis

    Expressions speak louder than Emojis

    What are your favorite emojis? Emojis. Do you know when was the first emoji was made ? nope.. so I googled and got to know this…..The first emoji were created in 1999 by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita. Kurita worked on the development team for “i-mode,” an early mobile internet platform from Japan’s main mobile carrier, DOCOMO.…

  • A Fresh Narrative

    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…

  • Treasure of World

    Treasure of World

    What place in the world do you never want to visit? Why? Where thought meet the intellect and intellect meets the ability to do things or perform tasks. World is huge and there are so much of beauty somewhere it is green lustrous forest and somewhere it is yellow desert! The coliseum to explicit beauty…

  • Voyage

    Voyage

    Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you. An action becomes a habit when it’s done repeatedly and a habit becomes a lifestyle when we cannot seperate from that particular action at any cost. Our family is such..the intriguing feeling to be a part of the family is a blessing and from…

  • Ascend

    Ascend

    What is your mission? The sunlight had sufficiently lit this corridor of the school. On oneside of the corridor were rooms in adjacent arrangement. Each room hadonly one door to enter and leave. The doors were painted castletongreen to match the overall theme of the school. The other side of the corridor was open, apart…

  • The light

    The light

    In our life there are so many experiences which we gather and so much so that we learn a lot in the process… The light twinkled in the evening, those Diwali lights … The tree light was kept on the table .. the room looked amazing! With all the golden light! With the fragrance of…