Indian Periodical

by Sidharth Mishra Once upon a time, in a far-off village, there lived a young boy named Mahajan. He was kind, humble, and always eager to help others. Mahajan lived with his parents, who were farmers and worked hard to make ends meet. One day, while Mahajan was walking through […]

by Pratik Mainali The abandoned old mansion on the outskirts of town was the subject of persistent rumors of being haunted. The neighbors murmured tales of weird sounds emanating from within, spectral figures appearing in the windows at night, and the curse that had befallen the family who had resided […]

by Pratik Mitra People started to gather. It was a sight indeed. Two women were pulling each other’s hair. They were mother and daughter. Their clothes were torn, their voice howling and cursing. They were fighting over a crushed plastic bottle. The first to return it to the man whom […]

by Terry Wynne Harry finally got a call for a job. His white-collar network was tattered and frayed, but his blue-collar friends on the softball team had some ideas. Only the strong survive in Brooklyn – these guys had it in their blood. “Think you could be a doorman?” said […]

by Madhavi Hadker Suman was only two years old when she lost her mother. Since her father had a busy schedule working on a ship for at least six to nine months, he decided to re-marry. However, Suman’s stepmother was very strict and made the girl work extremely hard. By […]

by K.S.Subramanian   It was in the tea shop, a two-room thatched shack with scattered Tamil dailies, where several youths found their mojo and showed they belonged there.  Their chats always spun around films, their doyen heroes or those who pretended to be so, and certainly politics. Their obsession with the leading […]

by Pratik Mitra Little Bittu had long been suspicious of his new neighbour. His parents would make fun of him if he had bared his heart. That was why he confided that to his pet cat Gollu: that neighbour was a monster. Not that the middlle-aged man was exceptionally tall […]

by Mehreen Ahmed Ishtiaque Rahman stepped out of the shower, and placed his wet feet on the floor tiles. He balanced himself between the towel rack and the sliding doors from slipping. He grabbed a towel and began to dry his hair, a slight breeze through the tiny bathroom passed […]

by Pratik Mainali Strange occurrences did not frequently occur in Hadigaun, a little community. Yet something was cooking on this particular evening. There was a peculiar and unsettling sense in the air as a storm approached. Jenny, a fresh-faced nurse at the neighborhood hospital, was on her way home after […]

by Sunil Sharma The shock was great! Billo was a cat! “How could you manage this for long?” asked Rani. “What?” “That you are a cat?” Billo meowed. “How did you discover this?” “I followed you to the b-b-b-a-ack of the r-e-strooms and saw you ch-ch-change form!” Rani, when excited, […]