Tag: Short Story
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I Will Take You There – Part 1
I have been driving on a road that is bordered by nothing. The sun is shining at its best and the dust is everywhere. At times like these, you realise everything being at its best is not always desired. My view is so monotonous, it seems I am going deep into a painting for which…
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Original Copy
– Is it wrong to love a married woman? – There is a term for it – Extra-marital Affair. – I didn’t say ‘for a married woman to love’ but ‘to love a married woman’. Do people have to earn a right to love someone, one right for each? Even if that is the case,…
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Sunset – Part 2
In this mesmerizing tonality of vicious humanity, we stay closer to the dominance of the netherworld with an abstinence of youth lingering through the insurmountable pain of anachronistic virile humor that we call, and apparently seem to believe, the wheel of life, a wheel that transcends through the path of unforgettable and almost reproachful understanding…
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Won but Lost
Today when I stand here, smiling for the media, with the glass award in my right hand and my book in the left, my eyes are still searching him in the crowd, but to no avail. To me he would always be the only person I envied, for his talent, for his outlook, for his…
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Sir
-I will call you after lunch, maybe? -Yes. It was 11:00 am on a Monday morning and I was returning from two consecutive Discrete Mathematical Structures lectures on Pigeonhole Principle and Generating Functions with a two page Tutorial Sheet in my left hand, a pen in the right pocket of the pair of jeans I…
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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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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…
Shishir Chaudhary 