One Grain Amongst the Storm

She was not a friend, nor a classmate, nor a social sibling –the veil under which some people fraternised in the college. We were graduating in the same year and we both had English Literature and she was in the other section further down the hallway. Although the timings for the classes were the same […]

Murali lay still on a festoon of boughs of the twin mango trees at the edge of the orchard. The pair of owls that had tried their best to scare him off with a medley of boos had fallen silent. A half moon hung in the midnight sky shedding a faint light on the somnolent […]

I’ve had a love-hate relationship with March, the onset of summers since early days. The weather in that small patch is just perfect, neither hot nor cold and rarely wet. The air is fragrant with flowers bursting on mango trees. Gusts of wind sweep the fallen leaves aimlessly amidst the rhythmic calls of koels. Fields […]

When Avi said he saw Dr Sharma’s wife’s ghost, what he meant he had seen a ravishing young woman, fair as lily and buxom as a nymph, sitting stark naked on the terrace of the house that overlooked his patio. Her legs dangled onto the thin ledge as she looked ahead, her golden hair flung […]