Yes, you got it right sir. He is my father – Triloki Nath Chauhan. Isn’t it an impressive name. A very tough man, sir. A big gun of his time. He used to silence everyone by saying only one sentence – don’t try to be over-smart. Every man related to him envied his potential. Encyclopedia is a small word to describe him. Some say he was a very big institution in himself. His interest in everything was exceptional – music, poetry, religion, science, history or politics. We used to feel very small in front of him. His every sentence was a command and every word a message. He never pocketed an insult. His biggest plus point was that he had a very impeccable character – a clean and fair image. He never discussed a trifle. The words he uttered today he would repeat the same even after ten years. He…
It was a fateful day. The freight container was fully secured, thrice locked. It contained The Last Drop of Oceanzong. World’s largest city Oceanzong…
He was shivering and sweating profusely. If not for this red rope tied to the insides of this, this—platform or whatever—I would have fallen…
Somewhere in Madras Presidency, sometime before the ̐Channar revolt, the twin-conical fabric sat on the coir bed way before the bride entered the room.…
In a particularly small town, on a particularly small street, there lived two small youngsters- their houses leaning towards each other as would young…
There was a flash of gold in the window. Shawn, a young boy of nineteen, saw it again, in the topmost window of the…
It was Shailee’s first car, a brand new shiny, ice blue Subaru. After driving the hand-me-down 97 model Honda Accord, for 21 years, the…
I am on a wooden boat with mother and baby brother, crossing the buzzing, high-current Diyun Hka river from the Miao bank to the…
They loved to go to the hills. Every November, Jun never misses an opportunity to ask Akakh for ride to Shillong, where the hills…
My father has been blind by one eye. When he turned deaf he became somewhat helpless. “Is this what next?” he often asked looking…
