Category: Stories
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The Book Club
– I feel sad for the world and the people I see around. Stuck in their 9 to 9 jobs throughout the week, they eat, walk, sleep, wake up thinking about their work. Sometimes, they would come back and have sex with their spouse/partner. Come weekend, and they would mechanically go out of their homes…
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Drum
Sweetheart, Today, I went to the beach. I am currently in Mangalore and I hope you are in the best state of your self. The sand here is white and fine. I want you to come visit this place and see for yourself. It is so white and fine that you might confuse it with…
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Mohan Lodge
It was one fine morning when I woke up and decided to visit my birthplace. No one in my relation or acquaintances lived there anymore, but this fact was of no significance to me when the desire was so strong that it reminded me of The Beatles’ I Want You. Then I got ready and…
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Sockets of Senses
I have spent a large part of my life loving the past and getting worried about the future. While, as Paulo Coelho says, the fear of suffering in the future is worse than the suffering itself, which by the way is the only consolation for me – the hope that the actual suffering will be…
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Sister
10th January, 1995 My name is Kiran. I am a boy. Today I celebrated my birthday and I am now 11 years old. But I will tell you a secret. I was not born today. I was born on 17th June but my parents have been celebrating my birthday on 10th January. That was when…
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Chingo
I always thought Biren looked like his father. Since time immemorial, I have maintained the custom of identifying resemblance of the current generation with the previous one and have never found such stark congruity of facial features that existed between him and Amitav, his father. I remember telling this to Amitav, – Biren looks just…
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Sodium in Water
– Do you know about the Turing Test? (She) – Yes. (Me) – Then let us modify the test a bit and enact the same. – What do you mean? Sitting by the window on her bed, it was almost 11 in the night when I tried for the seventeenth time not to look at…
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Lessons in Love
(Co-author: Nikita Agarwal) Have you seen the morning sun emanating briskly its rays on a spring morning? Whenever I met her, she felt the same. That’s the best analogy I could come up with not because she was no better than this (believe me when I say this, she was the best person I had…
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Traveler
– I have a question. (She said) – What? – Why can’t we love more than one person? (I gave a puzzled look, because I was.) – When one can love her mother and father and sisters and brothers equally, why can’t she get involved romantically with more than one person? Why can’t she care…
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The Tree of Nostalgia
(Co-author: Ishita Singh) – Are you religious? (He asked me) – Not really. In one of the corners of my room was a small table on which were kept little idols of Gods, on a glittery red square-shaped cloth with golden laces. I guess he was amused by it. – It is more of a…
Shishir Chaudhary 