Chapter 5

Pallavi woke up early on Sunday morning. She checked to see if Ma was around. Her mother had already left for her morning walk. Good. I will not have to answer any ‘buts’ and ‘whys’. She hastily scribbled a note for her mother saying that she was going over to Shreya’s place for breakfast. She…

Chapter 4.

She came out to see her mother in a contemplative mood. She was sitting at the coffee table sipping on her cup of tea, and thinking deeply about something. Talkative as her mother was, Pallavi knew that she could not have been quiet about nothing. Something was most certainly up.               “What’s the matter,…

Chapter 3

            Pallavi was awakened by the sound of the doorbell. Who could it be at this hour? She checked the clock. She had already taken in the packets of milk, and gone back to bed to snooze for an hour extra, and she had kept the garbage bags outside her door late last night, so…

Black Mamba

He was the Black Mamba. Feared and respected secret agent. But not here at this reunion. Here he was once again the little school boy watching butterflies out of his classroom, mesmerized by their beauty. Here he was the dreamer, the poet. At long last, he was Bipin once again.     Linking this post…

Sustenance

With a trembling hand, I pressed the button to call for the elevator. It was on the tenth floor. It would take some time to come down to the ground level. As I waited, flashes of my life appeared before my eyes. The ugly altercations, the verbal duels, the insults. They came back like a…

Teenage love

“Go to your room, NOW!” She boomed at Annika. “You are so unfair!” Annika yelled back before running to her room. She looked at her retreating form, and thought dejectedly, this was going to be more difficult than she had anticipated. “She thinks she is in love. She is only fifteen and can’t see what…

Conditions Apply…

They had a whirlwind romance, early engagement and married within six months of meeting each other. He had proposed to her on one knee with a diamond ring. The whole world thought that their jodi was perfect. Only she knew. Once they got married it was, “Baby, must you work?” “You know my parents are not comfortable…

Pandemonium

He had bought this house, away from the hustle bustle of his chawl, to escape the cacophony that enveloped his whole being from the wee hours of morning to way past midnight. Serene, quiet and an assurance of a peaceful existence it was. Night came. No sounds yet. Except the deafening silence. Tick-tock, tap tap…