A passenger in a bus takes a look at the people around her…

By Nida Sayed
A baby is waiting to be born to keep her "Maa" warm…
HOW DO you want your eggs?" asks Asha, "fried or scrambled?"
"Scrambled I guess." says Maa, "But avoid the yolk, I feel like puking."
I had been hearing these voices for a few weeks. Though my ears hadn’t developed then, I could figure […]

By Rama Rao
ARPITA LOOKED at the signboard, "Paying guest accommodation available." She stopped and looked at the address. It was in the next lane! She was excited, and quickly noted down the contact number and address. She took a U-turn, and reached the place in five minutes. Yes! She checked to see if the address […]

By Amrinder Bajaj
Neha Mathur sunk into depression when her mother died. What would it take for her to be happy again?
NEHA MATHUR had gone into deep depression after the accident - an accident that had taken her mother’s life and spared hers. She could never forget that Sunday. Her father was on tour as […]

By Pachu Menon
Hanumantha was a mason… who regularly killed people.
ATINY hamlet a stone’s throw away from the city, which could be described more as a settlement of a few mud houses with thatched roofs, predominantly occupied by migrants who are known to come to this commercial town in hoards in search of their livelihood! Families […]

A mother wonders if she has brought up daughter well when she discovers she has ‘friends with benefits’.

Was the promise of fidelity difficult to keep?

By Vijayan Detha
A shepherd gets into an ‘intellectual’ duel with a maulvi…
THE STORIES of the desert are like its sand, fine and transparent. Before we start the story, let’s pray that god blesses is all with the simplicity of mind and heart that the gadaria of our story had.
Tucked into a cluster of seven […]

Of phirkis and flutes…the narrator paints a vivid picture of two lovers.

By Kishori Charan Das
Mr Rangarao had died. How did the Indian community in Washington DC react?
THE weatherman had announced that we were likely to have snowfall towards evening. It was the midday news; one John Douglas had conveyed the news to us along with a recipe for New Frontier nail-polish. It was his usual […]