I remember both vividly; the night I saw the ghost of Annette and the night I heard about her death. They happened in that same order. One of them was on a December night, exactly a week before Christmas. The comfort of the heat from the fireplace on one side of my body and the cold, seeping in from the outside, on the other didn’t make me feel better. I stood up slowly from the chair. The room seemed to be shrinking and I wanted to get out. And I did just that. It was getting dark and cold on the outside. The fog had started to cover the village of St. Louis. “Don’t forget your jacket, Joe. It’s freezing outside.” I heard the voice of Margaret, our housemaid since I was a toddler, as I was about to step out. As I turned around I saw her coming with…
I find women to be strange. Imprudent. Thoughtless. In the midst of the pandemic, they are restless about the hair on their skulls, on…
“Malati, hey Malati. Open the door, open it quickly.” Roma Aaba yelled out running for Malati from the courtyard. “What a bimbo! Open it…
Raju (38 years old) lives with his wife Kamala and 8 yearold daughter Lakshmi in Kakinada, a small town in Andhra Pradesh. He works…
DELHI – 2:45 pm Head office of Mystic World publication house An employee running with a very confusing and shocking expression…
“….Yes, yes; and then we shall do it, right?…. You did the same, didn’t you?… It worked! Then we shall try … I think…
It was a Saturday evening. The clock struck four when suddenly I remembered that I had to buy some graph sheets for presentation. The…
“Atharv” “Atharv!” “Is it you, Atharv?” I turned my face in sheer astonishment and disbelief. I was gazing here and there in utter confusion.…
The morning was doleful. The heartthrob of many was lying, still, heartlessly. The one for whom many hearts beat, was devoid of his own…
