Janu was planning to watch a film on the TV that evening. At the nick of time electricity failed. Resting her chin on her palms, she became heavy with thoughts. I was about to share her grief when Janu said…
Janu was planning to watch a film on the TV that evening. At the nick of time electricity failed. Resting her chin on her palms, she became heavy with thoughts. I was about to share her grief when Janu said…
I feel like stopping a while and taking a deep breath peacefully. But it is not possible. Seem to be in a hurry all the time. A rushed life. Not that there is no leisure at all. Some thoughts seem…
People come shopping to this house even before sunrise: adults, adolescents, below thirty years, above thirty, nearing forty, above forty even. One of them would come and push open the door for us. The money arrived before we could open…
The story so far The prologue introduces Lanka Lakshmi in conversation with Hanuman who has entered Lanka, bent on destroying it. Lanka Lakshmi was destined to stay as a guard to Lanka in the form of a rakshasi on account…
In the beginning God created the Virat Purusha – the Cosmic Being – out of the atoms of his own being. Consequent to which, he divided his comprehensive form into fourteen parts and created the fourteen worlds. The Virat Purusha…
Like any other terrible event this one too began without much ado. In a nutshell, from what one could figure out, what was being assumed as the real reason, if that was true, then the event was really quite the…
Full of hope, Kalyani picked up the small net with a long bamboo pole. But even before opening it she was disappointed. There was no fish in it. She shook the net well praying for at least some small fish…
Shantha, There you are, After a bath, wearing wet clothes, Removing the knots from your hair And combing it back with A middle parting, Slowly moving the hands wearing bangles, indifferently applying kohl to your eyes, Putting a black mark…
The bleeding heart — it scares us all. That cry for help could have been my own! The very thought sends a chill up the spine. Perhaps, the pain of these tender, unguarded moments binds us all. Ashok was…
“Quite unconsciously, he grew to fill out her mind. Like the saintly hermit in Sravana Belgola who comes in view whichever corner of the city you look from, whichever corner of her mind she looked from, he came into view.”…
‘Brainless Women’ is considered the first Malayalam short story that got published in a woman’s name. No other information is available on its author, M. Saraswathi Bai. The story was first published in April 1911, in Bhashaposhini, Book XV, Volume…
