I am not sure if I love you. But, the thing is, I am supposed to love you. After fourteen years of concealed existence wherein I have struggled to comprehend the complicated labyrinth of human relationship, I am pushed to the forefront of a hospital room and told that you belong to me. But I don’t know how you belong to me. You could be an aunt, a sister, a relative, or even a cousin. Except you look too old to be a cousin. I turn around suddenly, my fingers groping for the warmth of parental presence. But suddenly the two individuals who have put clothes on my back and food in my mouth seem to have stepped away. They say that they were merely pretending to be my parents all this while. As I am pushed closer to you, I notice the way your eyes open. The whites of…
1999~Adventure during my teenage years My name is Yashodhara Ishanvi Chowdary and I am 38 years old now. I have a vivid memory of…
Satish looked at his watch. It was 5:30 in the evening. The soft sound of rain drops on the roof had got milder. He…
1st January 2020 The alarm on my mobile phone set off, waking me up suddenly from a dream that I vaguely remembered the moment…
The 2nd of November. All Souls Day. That evening when I was strolling, I found a young lady sitting on the tomb of a…
“I love you,” he said, and he didn’t know what he meant by that. Neither did she. “I love you,” she replied automatically, deliberately…
Three lone strands of hair were all that remained atop of 4th grade teacher Bruce Starkweather’s curious-thought-filled-head. Moving at a pace his body would barely have…
Cursing, eyes flashing red, she’d taken a wrong turn and ended up in this out-of-the-way lakeside resort. Seven squat buildings strewn along a narrow…
Publisher : Counterpoint (February 16, 2021) Hardcover : 272 pages The daughter of a biologist, the wife of a biologist, and the mother of a…
Shakuntala was holding her mother’s hand and was moving in the crowded fair which was set up in a village far away from hers. …
