I got a call from Victor, my Colleague. He gives the information, that he received the mail, regarding the interview for the post of a guest faculty in the department of English, University College. Every year we have to apply for the same post for re-appointment. I opened my mail, but I had not received the mail. This mail was so important to me, as I was dependent on this job. I told Victor, I had not received the mail. He convinced me, that I will receive the mail and not to worry. When I got the call, I was near the ATM machine. I had tried to draw the amount as usual, but was not successful because of some technical problem. As each minute passed by, I could feel the tension grow. The whole evening, I was numb and disturbed. My colleague Shalini too called and informed me about…
“ Nature is always ready, are we humans ready for that deal.” Far away from the human world there was a quiet and…
Nicki Perrin gazed ponderously at Suzie and wondered. Suzie stared back blankly. She had blue eyes with an everlasting but icy sparkle, a tiny…
The night before had been…well a night! Dr Bryan Higgins had slept on the beach – he had been so ‘smashed’ and he hadn’t…
Cross eyed Mara, his brother Nata and their cousin, a gangling, mute simpleton, called Gaja loaded the last iron barrel onto the bulla-cart and…
It had been a sweltering day; wheeling his bicycle up a slope that was nearly quarter of a mile of merciless grey, dusty road…
I am still hesitant to call this a ghostly encounter, but I cannot account for it any other way. It was an uncertain sliver…
It was a pretty normal day . The kind of day that just lulls you to sleep if you are not ‘awake ‘ enough…
There is something oppressive about silence. Everyone is afraid to break it. I can see the fear mirrored on the faces of the people…
