You are only nineteen. Your pre-university examination is just over and you expect very good result because you have worked hard. You have a dream. You want to be a doctor but you will not. Instead you will marry one. I mean you will marry a doctor who is two decades and five years older to you. You argue and place your reasons. Most tragically, your parents will not listen to you. They will listen to your aunties, I mean the matchmakers of the family. Why? Because you are still a child and you don’t know what is good and what is bad for you. You have not lived even a quarter of your life. You have no idea at all about the world. They are making this arrangement for your own good. And according to their wisest opinion, there can never be another suitor more suitable for you than…
Reona never saw her Granny’s eyes moist. Not in her small six year lifespan at least. She always pictured her granny as a spirited…
“Make sure the printing press ownerdelivers the posters tomorrow!”orderedRam Chand burping loudly while chomping on an onion pakora. He then mechanically wiped his fingers…
There were a multitude of things to engage the people thronging the fair and therefore one could empathize with the apathetic attitude of the…
That evening, Chora exited the house, fuming to such an extent that he would soon burst if no efforts were made to cool his…
‘It was dimly bright, the morning had just risen from its sleep when suddenly I heard “help……help. Somebody please help me” and went out…
It was so unlike Aulakka to wander away from home and be lost. Distraught with anxiety, Pathumma his wifewas panting for breath and remained…
I observed him carefully as he walked to the door. I knew that time was running out but suppressed the urge to check my…
As he woke up again on a Monday morning, the weekend like every other weekend wasted away, he let out a huge sigh. Head…
The man was listlessly walking around in his kitchen at the topmost floor of the apartment building. He was not thinking about anything; in…
