Baa opened the door with a smile as she expected Sanjali to return home from work. Sanjali reciprocated but the smile was half-hearted. Baa thought so. Baa watched Sanjali drag herself to the sofa and sink in it. She sat there with her head held low. Sanjali’s face appeared dull. Read more…
Little Anju and Anuj were excited. They clapped when Ranjit, their Baba, who worked as the security guard at a mall, got down from the ladder after hanging the swing in the front room of their house in the chawl. While Ranjit took the ladder away, Sangeeta, his wife stood Read more…
The mobile rang the third time. Cursing self for not turning it on ‘silent mode’, he picked it up. Checking the screen, he took a deep sigh. It was his wife’s. ‘Not again’, he muttered under his breath. “Tell me”, he answered the call in a stony voice. He then Read more…
She was lost in holding the painting with its frame this way and that and couldn’t stop admiring it. While she was busy at it, he paid cash to the owner of the shop, “108 Fine Art”. They were in the deserted alley of the old town area. It was Read more…
Sitting near the window of her study, with a wall to wall bookcase at the backdrop, racks of which were filled with the distinct collectible titles, she was looking out casually. The relentless downpour was splattering the glass window with infinite threads of beady pearls. As if there was a Read more…