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Anuradha Sen – Planning is on
Anuradha and Souvik mulled over their ideal destination for the second honeymoon and they narrowed down to their options to Kerala and Goa. The couple had headed to goa for their first honeymoon, so it was definitely a place filled with memories. However, Kerala was a very tempting option too. At long last they both […]
Will’s experience at the airport:
After his return from Rome, Will couldn’t find his luggage in the airport baggage area. He went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that his bags hadn’t shown up on the carousel.She smiled and told him not to worry because they were trained professionals and he was in good hands. Then […]
The Scientific Union
You sugarcoat my bitchiness You compliment my completeness We are the perfect combination Of stress and relaxation We could fuse effortlessly Sans any biotechnology Our union needs no Kraft temperature Neither a minimum CMconcentration Never gonna let eddy currents near Cuz I am great lamination for your core Hold on to maintain exponential growth Lest […]
Shake off your problems
A man’s favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice; He can’t pull it out no matter how hard he tries; He therefore decides to bury it alive. Soil is poured onto the donkey from above. The donkey feels the load, shakes it off, and steps on it; More soil is poured. It shakes it off […]
Danielle Rose
Danielle Rose Age – 25 Occupation – Barista Although she did her undergraduates in English language and lives with the constant hope of writing a bestseller someday, Danielle decided to take a break from all that after graduation. She simply settled into the mundane lifestyle of a barista in one of the famed outdoor cafes […]
“The Judges” by Pablo Neruda
Your blood asks, how were the wealthy and the law interwoven? With what sulfurous iron fabric? How did the poor keep falling into the tribunals? How did the land become so bitter for poor children, harshly nourished on stone and grief? So it was, and so I leave it written. Their lives wrote it on […]
Who is it inside: Pierson Kerr
After one tiring day at the laboratory, Pierson arrives at the door to his flat only to find that the door gives way without him having to insert the key. He is a little cautious as he enters the house. However, since he does not have any weapon handy, his plan right now is to […]
Sonnet 29:When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
William Shakespeare When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d, Desiring this man’s art and […]
Bade Bhai’s message to the members of the Let Us Write Community
We started this venture to encourage the writer in you! We hope that in your New Year Resolutions (among the ones that you intend to keep!), you have included the point on contributing actively to the project at Let Us Write. We hope to work with you in the year 2015 to expand on our […]
Everyone has a Story in Life
A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted… “Dad, look the trees are going behind!” Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed… “Dad, look the clouds are running with us!” The couple couldn’t resist and said […]
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 […]