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2nd Innings – Part 2

Filed in Fiction, April 29, 2011, 10:00 am by

Tweet“Sir, Sir”, sang a dulcet voice. Kumari wiped her hands in her sari and hurried to the front door. A doe-eyed, tall, lissome girl was waiting on the threshold. “Yes, what do you need?”, Kumari asked the radiant vision in a neatly pressed Salwar suit. The girl superbly ignored her, her restless eyes darting hither [...]

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2nd Innings – Part 1

Filed in Fiction, April 26, 2011, 3:02 pm by

TweetThe train was slowly pulling out of the station, shrieking with gusto. Two figures were trotting along the train – a young man in an easy sprint and a not-so young woman in a slow jog. “This is our compartment, get in”, shouted Muthu jumping into the train with the ease of young, supple limbs.  [...]

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The Bird Cage

Filed in Fiction, March 31, 2011, 9:31 am by

TweetWhen I started working in Chennai, I rented a small flat in West Mambalam.  I didn’t have any roommates for a while, and Valliyamma, a retired sweeper (janitor) kept me company.  She used to work in the college where my mother was the Principal (Dean). I couldn’t afford to buy a TV for a month, [...]

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Guilty of Innocence

Filed in Fiction, March 25, 2011, 7:00 am by

TweetThe minute I entered the classroom, I knew something was amiss. The girls were huddled together in groups, their faces bent forward, discussing something in whispers. This was not new, but strangely enough, even my group – the “Grand Band of Geeks” – was discussing something animatedly. I wondered what common topic had united my [...]

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The world we lived in..

Filed in Fiction,General Interest, August 29, 2010, 2:18 pm by

TweetMy entire family rejoiced my birth. Our family is one big united with all uncles, aunts, grandparents living together. We are a simple living group. We do what is needed for bare survival. We are not greedy and do not have a luxurious lifestyle. We are a colony now going about lives. We are what [...]