With her arm inserted through a wicker basket’s handle, Kate carefully stepped over the shoreline’s rocks as water sloshed inches from her feet. Tied by a blue hair ribbon, her sandals hung around her neck. A cool, salty breeze that blew in from the Atlantic Ocean made her calf-length tie-dyed skirt billow above her knees like an adrift parachute. Free from being bound, her silver hair that reached to the middle of her back floated in the air around her. Sunlight glinted from the dancing web-like strands. Her scrubbed cheeks were ruddy from the assault of wind, weather and exertion. She bent down and lifted a dead puffin from where it had become lodged between two rocks and placed its limp, battered body in the basket with another puffin. She stood and looked out at the water, holding her hand above her eyes, shielding them from the sun and water’s…
Mrinalini was up, even before the crack of dawn, fresh with renewed vigour to embark upon the day’s chores. Sipping her morning cup of…
One of the kids in my swimming class was terrified of the deep pool. I found his mother sitting poolside and asked if he’d…
The wind blew in a symphony, rustling the leaves in the trees, making the silver sheet on the lake’s surface shiver with its caressing…
Author: Samaresh Mazumdar Pages: 279 Uttaradhikar meaning Inheritance is the first installment of ‘Animesh’ series, a classic novel written by Samaresh Mazumdar – one of the…
The school garden was the home of a variety of flowers, some standing tall and proud like the sun flowers, some vivacious and passionate…
According to anthropologists, ethnicity has numerous implications with respect to race, nation, class, etc. In many ways it is also conceived as a fairly…
I visited an ex-colleague, a retired widower. I was surprised to see him busy browsing the net keenly and I saw a number of…
Kaveri lay on her back, gazing at the sky above. It was a beautiful, dark night, the clouds like blotches of mud on the…
From the football field size patch of muddy land stretching out along the side of the road where I sat, I could see the…
