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12Apr

Protected: The Pallbearer

Posted by umashankaron April 12, 2015March 2, 2016in Fiction

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23Mar

Protected: Sandhurst Road

Posted by umashankaron March 23, 2015March 2, 2016in Fiction
Sandhurst Road

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29Dec
38 comments on “The Bungalow by the Tracks”

The Bungalow by the Tracks

Posted by umashankaron December 29, 2014September 10, 2017in Fiction38 Comments

Five years after she fled to Delhi in an unreserved coach of Lucknow Mail on the eve of her proposed marriage, Miranda returned to the town where she had grown to be a woman from a blob in a womb.…

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03Oct
46 comments on “The Crusted Slice”

The Crusted Slice

Posted by umashankaron October 3, 2014September 10, 2017in Fiction46 Comments

Always on Dussehra, my sister who is a rung up in the family ladder would remember the older one who lived with us briefly. She was not too old when she fell ill on a winter night that thundered and…

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27Oct
52 comments on “End of Dusk”

End of Dusk

Posted by umashankaron October 27, 2013September 10, 2017in Fiction52 Comments

The evening is still, the birds silent, the wind dead like a tramp, flopped on a footpath. The sky is dressed in dust and dusk. His lungs cannot pull in half the air they used to soak till the last…

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24May
71 comments on “A Far Cry from Mr Darcy”

A Far Cry from Mr Darcy

Posted by umashankaron May 24, 2013October 17, 2014in Fiction71 Comments

The concluding part of 'Never Forget a Ruby' As I stood stiff under a jet stream of water, the set of four faces kept throbbing in my head, they all saying something to my eyes squeezed shut. Hemant, Robin, Sonia,…

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19May
54 comments on “A Polar Bear Remembers”

A Polar Bear Remembers

Posted by umashankaron May 19, 2013October 17, 2014in Fiction54 Comments

'There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.' ~ A Study in Scarlet Read the preceding part 'The Man from Baker Street' here. The story begins here in 'Never Forget a Ruby' ‘Yes, I am…

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17May
50 comments on “The Man from Baker Street”

The Man from Baker Street

Posted by umashankaron May 17, 2013October 17, 2014in Fiction50 Comments

(The story begins in 'Never Forget a Ruby' Read it here. ) I was about to begin hating ‘dodger blue’ cars for years to come but I didn’t know it then. It was morning still and we were swarming the…

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11May
77 comments on “Never Forget a Ruby”

Never Forget a Ruby

Posted by umashankaron May 11, 2013February 5, 2015in Fiction77 Comments

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…

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01May
63 comments on “Sam Was Sad”

Sam Was Sad

Posted by umashankaron May 1, 2013August 29, 2014in Fiction, Such is Life, Uncorked Angst63 Comments

It was a sultry summer morning when I first met Sam twenty five years ago. My roommate was groveling for an omelet, sprawled in his bed. He had been missing his turn at cooking breakfast for the fourth day in…

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10Mar
112 comments on “The Monk in the Rain”

The Monk in the Rain

Posted by umashankaron March 10, 2013March 14, 2022in Fiction112 Comments

I’ve had a love-hate relationship with March, the onset of summers since early days. The weather in that small patch of year is just perfect, neither hot nor cold and rarely wet. The air is fragrant with panicles bursting on…

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18Nov
81 comments on “Painter of Omens”

Painter of Omens

Posted by umashankaron November 18, 2012March 13, 2022in Fiction81 Comments

Painting by Pino Daeni When Avi said he saw Dr Sharma’s wife’s ghost, what he meant he had seen a ravishing young woman, fairy white and buxom, sitting stark naked on the terrace of the house that overlooked his backyard.…

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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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