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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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Dodged
What are you most excited about for the future? The white painted wooden door of flat number 136, in building B of theOakwood Apartments slowly opened with enough space for an eye or twoto see through. Esha looked at the empty corridor, then she opened thedoor wider to check whether the door of the apartment…
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Walking Ahead
The school helper entered the classroom V-B. Alka had recently joinedin for the position. The room was empty. The students had gone to thecomputer lab of the school. Alka looked around at the light-yellowwalls of the room with boards displaying different creative efforts bythe children, even the doors of the cupboards were not spared fromthem.…
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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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Catching a Wink
Hem sat quietly outside on a wooden rocking chair facing the garden atthe back of his three floored house in the evening. The tea in the cupon the side table had become cold. Ananta, Hem’s wife, came lookingfor him after her tuition class ended. She picked up the cup andwalked back inside to heat the…
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Waiting Without an End
Nandini covered her face with the scarf that she was wearing aroundher head. Even though she was standing in a shaded area, the drops ofsweat refused to stop coming. She looked at her watch, then at herphone. ‘I am reaching in 10 minutes’ – that was the message Nandini’s friendOmya had sent her an hour…
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Prelude of a New Year
What are your biggest challenges? The two plastic dice rolled against the glass top of the table for the 4th time. “You know what is turning out to be a big challenge right now? Getting a 7,” spoke my cousin as he put the two dice back into the dice cup and then rolled them…
Early Morning Memories 