by Deepanshu Srivastava Indrajeet Naik, a driver in Mumbai, was a pretentious man and had lots of dreams in his eyes. He wanted to have his own travel – agency. One day he met a person named Dhanraj Patil and when Patil came to know about the ambitions of Indrajeet, […]
Fiction
Tusks
by Steve Carr It’s abandoned now. Moss now covers most of the front facade and ivy encircles the marble columns that reach from the portico to the roof just above the second floor. The windows are covered in dust and dirt; sunlight has not shown through them for several years. […]
A Piece of Heart
by Sudarshna Negi Her parents called her Ziva because she was the first born girl in their family after two generations. Ziva, means a piece of heart, as the name suggests she was loved by everyone in the family in her childhood. Ziva was born in a small village far […]
The Grass Cutter
by Snigdha Agrawal He comes at dusk, wearing a yellow and black checked shirt with sleeves rolled up, black pants, bare feet with a sickle in his hand. Sometimes riding a much-used bicycle, other times on foot, to cut the overgrown grass. Frail of built, but agile, it’s hard to […]
London Calling
by Deepanshu Srivastava In Gandhinagar, Gujarat there lived two fast friends, Suresh Patel and Prabhat Desai, who were in the export business of clothes and readymades. People in Gandhinagar used to give examples of their friendship. Both of them had an intense desire of visiting London. However, money was an […]
A Case of Cheating
by S. Chandra Shekar “He has done it. He has cheated me” shouted Raja, “I knew he had a plan and now he has done it. I’ve been a fool and now look what has happened” “What happened, Raja? Why are you so agitated? Tell me what happened and let […]
The Rajah’s Garden
by Divy Tripathi They wouldn’t know about it, would they? Of course not. Who cares about weed-wedded gardens and wild forests after all? I had been worrying myself sick over nothing. These are dead wastelands, which keep the dead with them. Maybe it was this ride that got me to […]
Silhouettes
by Muhsina. K. Ismail The sky was huddled with greyish white clouds. Bright yellow sunlight was prickling Thamanna’s eyes. She drew the curtain blinds. Still, patches of yellow light appeared on a pillow, on the plastic foldable bookshelf, and on the yellow board printed with fruits and animals fitted on […]
The Office Election
by Arya Bhandare “Well my dear teammates, today is a beautiful day!”, Namita Mehta smiled at her sales team. I’m going to finish assessing your sales from yesterday and I hope each one of you has a margin to offer!” A Beautiful Indian woman of Kashmiri descent, With wide, liquid […]
Metopia
by Aneeta Sundararaj Malaysia is supposed to uphold democratic principles.… Even though Islam is Malaysia’s official religion, this does not make Malaysia a theocracy. That is a slippery slope that we must not descend, for it poses an existential threat to the original concept of Malaysia. … Democracy also involves […]