Tag: Family
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Stories We Tell
When he was 4 years old, Krishna Malik declared in the living room of his house with much aplomb and banging feet (that hardly produced any sound except a soft thump on a bed of cotton) that he wanted a speaking doll. This was taken by his mother and father with not much enthusiasm, and…
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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…
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Rainy Evening
It was grey outside the window. Not the gloomy winter grey when hope starts to shatter only to be never lifted up and reconstructed. It was the season’s first shower, more precisely, the moment after the season’s first shower. Grey clouds hung over the streets and the trees on the sides and people. It was…
Shishir Chaudhary 