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Tag: Short Story

09Apr
53 comments on “The Vegetable Rice Chef”

The Vegetable Rice Chef

Posted by umashankaron April 9, 2017April 20, 2017in Fiction53 Comments

Himesh is fussy about the order in which ingredients should be put into vegetable rice. Butter, followed by equal amount of mustard oil, cumin seeds, chopped chillies and onions, crushed ginger and garlic, minced mint and coriander leaves, a handful…

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01Mar
50 comments on “Three Tamarind Trees -Part II”

Three Tamarind Trees -Part II

Posted by umashankaron March 1, 2016April 16, 2017in Fiction50 Comments

*The beginning It was half past six in the morning as I trod the bridge over the moat to the looming entrance. My heart matched the pitter-patter of my hastening steps. Unlike the stolid façade I had come upon in…

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24Feb
41 comments on “Three Tamarind Trees -Part I”

Three Tamarind Trees -Part I

Posted by umashankaron February 24, 2016April 16, 2017in Fiction41 Comments

I swear I will tell you each word of the story as he had whispered in my ears. I first met him at Sadar Bazar in Agra. I had just purchased a paperback called Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and…

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07Feb

Protected: Wind in the Ruins

Posted by umashankaron February 7, 2016March 2, 2016in Fiction, Such is Life

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31Jan

Protected: Life of a Hollow

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17Jan

Protected: High Tide Rising

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08Jan

Protected: Moonwalks with Coquettes

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04Jan

Protected: The Wine Red Kiss

Posted by umashankaron January 4, 2016February 29, 2016in Fiction

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15Dec

Protected: The Wild Thing in Us

Posted by umashankaron December 15, 2015March 2, 2016in Fiction

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23Oct

Protected: Come Away with Me

Posted by umashankaron October 23, 2015March 2, 2016in Fiction

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29Jun

Protected: Ayesha’s Face

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11May

Protected: The Spanish Witch

Posted by umashankaron May 11, 2015March 2, 2016in Fiction

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The Vegetable Rice Chef

Three Tamarind Trees

The Bungalow by the Tracks

End of Dusk

The Monk in the Rain

Sam was Sad

Painter of Omens

A Wobbly-legged Boy

The Ghosts of Jamun Trees

Another Day like This

Going Blind

The Evening That Killed

The Giggling Gladiator

Ghazals in English

Lend Me the Assassin

Molten Moons

Afterwards

Wet Charcoal

The Icicled Bosom

Years in the Ash

A Leaf by the Nightfall

Pebbles You May Like

‘Oumuamua

Thus Spake My Father

Hangmen of April

Goodbye, Cynthia Jobin

Haruki Murakami’s Well

The Same Night

The Nightfall of Blogging

The Crusted Slice

Silence of the Scrolls

Unnameable Things

Reading The Forgotten Waltz

Writing is So Long

Fungus on the Filter

Flames and Ashes

A Hole in My Pyjamas

The Slippery Slope

An Owl Reflects

The Last Salute

Truth Alone Triumphs

Zinfandel Moments

Ghostwalker

My son, must I stay?

Fra Lippo Lippi

While I be the Banker

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