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Latha & Hari: As the story unfolds
He had never expected this, but her answer makes him want to believe in the concept of soulmates and love at first sight, and maybe something where it is all rolled into one! Her favorite book turns out to be this quaint book that until recently, he thought no one but him had given so […]
On Friendship by Khalil Gibran
And a youth said, “Speak to us of Friendship.” Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his […]
Shraddha & Abhinav Dinner date
Shraddha is pleasantly surprised when her husband returns home early from work on the 10th day in a row. Something about him has definitely changed, and it cannot be about some fling or the lack of it. He has brought a bouquet of flowers for her today. He has NEVER done that before. He informs […]
Love in the Asylum-Dylan Thomas
A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the head, A girl mad as birds Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume. Strait in the mazed bed She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering clouds Yet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room, At large […]
Second Honeymoon Planning
Sauvik had a hard time digesting the idea at first, but as he thought more and more about it, he realized how irrational and paranoid to think that his mother-in-law (who was already helping them baby-sit Arghya) would do any harm to her grandson. Besides, Arghya seemed to get along better with is mother-in-law than […]
Arrogance is normally a banal mask of cowardice by Paulo Coelho
Epictietus (AD 55 – AD 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave in Greece, lived in Rome and was expelled and exiled to his homeland where he lived for most of his life. During his exile, he created a way of teaching his disciples. Below, an excerpt of his book Discourses: […]
Holly & Jaikishan
Jaikishan – It had been three days since Holly had asked him for a guided tour around Bodhgaya. Now, he was living with her in Sujata Hotel. During the day, Holly and her friends had been going around the town and Jaikishan had been busy at his new job of showing tourists around the Bodhi […]
She dwelt among the untrodden ways By – William Wordsworth
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! —Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy […]
Madhura: A happy homecoming?
Throughout the flight journey, Madhura had been worried sick about the reaction she would receive from her husband and her daughter. Once she reached the Kochi Airport she realizes just how much she had missed being in her native place. On the taxi ride to her village, Madhura prays real hard that her daughter would […]
An excerpt from Khaled Hosseini’s, ‘The Kite Runner’
During one reading session under their favorite pomegranate tree, Amir begins to make up his own story while he is reading to Hassan. Hassan says it is one of the best stories Amir has read. That night, Amir writes his first short story, about a man whose tears turn to pearls. The man finds new […]
Latha – how the dating will go?
As she enters chai cofi (the place where all the youth in Kochi seemed to hang-out these days), she is struck by the calm, composed manner in which Hari is seated there. And she is also impressed by the fact that Hari had made the effort to be there before the agreed time. All her […]
Sonnet XVII By Pablo Neruda
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light […]
Abhinav Patel – A change of heart?
Still divided on his idea of sleeping with his Secretary, he dials in her extension number. When she answers her phone, he asks, “have all the employees left the office already?” When she replies in the affirmative, it somehow feels like he just had to give in to his adulterous ways. When the secretary walks […]
I thank all those by Paulo Coelho
I thank all those who laughed at my dreams; You have inspired my imagination. I thank all who wanted to squeeze me into their scheme; They have taught me the value of freedom. I thank all who have lied to me; You have shown me the power of truth. I thank all those who have […]
SR Bose: Once upon a time in JNU
As clichéd as it sounds, S R Bose’s bitterness stems from spurned love. They had met on the JNU campus. Their love grew as they argued about capitalism and communism. They both were passionate about their subjects; Bose loved political science and she was passionate about theatre. The more they talked, the more they fell […]
Anuradha approaches Sauvik
That evening when Sauvik got home from his job as a Marketing Manager at a Cosmetic Company, he was in for a treat. Anuradha had taken the effort to dress up and cook the family an elaborate dinner. From his years of marriage, if he had learnt one thing, women generally do this right before […]
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his […]