Who Wrote These Letters

Who Wrote These Letters

Shubrato returned home tired after a long day at work. As a thirty-year-old chartered accountant, the end of March was always a demanding time for him. With a heavy sigh, he acknowledged that today marked the last day of March, and starting tomorrow, things would...
 A Moment of Ecstasy

 A Moment of Ecstasy

‘Don’t you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?’  Prita Menon* and Manoj Pisharodi* too wished the same. They wanted to hold every memory of their childhood close to their heart forever and forever, and...
THE SAMARITANS

THE SAMARITANS

“Passengers travelling by Indigo 6E-392 to Gauhati via Kolkata, kindly proceed for boarding ….……,” In a daze, Angshuman proceeded towards the departure gate. This was the first journey by flight for the twenty two year old, but trepidation caused by the deadly...
CROW SHIT FORTUNE

CROW SHIT FORTUNE

                             Adorned in my blue Armani suit, I sat impatiently, half-listening to the garrulous chief guest.  It looked like his secretary was not well versed with full stops. There was none in the speech drafted by her. After what seemed like an...

The Haunting Melody

                                                       ‘Chalte Chalte…. Yuhi koi mil gaya tha…*’ Tavishi’s lips quivered. In a moment, she was drenched in sweat. “Stop the music,” she screamed at the auto driver. The music stopped, but...
The Roommate

The Roommate

Why would Shraboni request a room change? It was just two days since college started, and they hardly knew each other. Tavishi was bemused by her roommate’s behavior. “Not a word was uttered between us. Shraboni did not even acknowledge my greetings when I...