With moist and dismayed eyes a foreign worker in clothes mildly smeared with grease and paint stood first in the growing queue. Pusillanimously lost in thought he looked like a Bangladeshi, Anu guessed. Just behind the Bangladeshi, a middle-aged rotund Chinese man was leaning on the side rails with two sizeable red plastic shopping bags placed near his feet. Oblivious to the surrounding, he was busy talking on his mobile, thanking and laughing with exaggerated courtesy, “Háiméiyǒu, xièxiè.” The moment Anu saw her son’s eyes sparkling brighter, she knew the reason, and she’d guessed it right. Crawling on one of the large plastic bags carried by a Chinese man was a huge fly that caught the keen attention of ten-year-old Kani. He couldn’t take his eyes off. As always she was fascinated by his interest displayed even before he had turned one. From as early as seven months he used to look…
Looking far at the wilds, Jack turned to askBala, “Are leeches found here during these months?” when the latter was about to dash up…
It was a Friday afternoon in January. The widespread Neem with several sturdy and innumerable small branches made the atmosphere cool. A couple of…
In one of the historical markets of Old Delhi is a road; often touted as the busiest and the most dangerous one in the…
In Laajpur, a notorious town on the outskirts of Delhi, strange things were happening. The events had baffled everyone. Initially, some had dismissed it…
The black canoe cut a silken path through the shallows. A fortuitous breeze covered the frail sliver of a moon, plunging the sea into…
When Guddu the constable swings his lathi[1], he imagines revenge against his violent, merciless father. In his hands, it becomes more than a four-foot…
‘’Deceit: Comrade of Lust, Lust: Adversary of Love’’ ——– Soham Paul ~ 4:00 pm. The rain was persistent. It was twanging on the…
It was late at night. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain in my back. The pain seemed to be crawling surreptitiously towards my distended…
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