Daily Ruminations of a Dreamer
The Joker pulled his lips into a wide smile, making everyone around guffaw. The act soon ended and he treated to his room. Exhausted, he fell asleep in his costume. While drifting off to sleep, one last thought floated in his mind – how many in the audience today put on their plastic smile? Grinning [...]
She was the IAS daughter married into the IAS family. The cherished daughter-in-law, the trophy wife, the one they all couldn’t stop raving about. Then she got pregnant. She was pampered dime-a-dozen. After all, she was bearer of the next IAS heir. The day she gave birth was a warm sunny one. ‘It’s a girl!’ [...]
It’s 2150 and a massive train approaches the platform. World is now run by machines. Humans are a species on brink of extinction – they did not use their bodies for the longest period so their size reduced till they became a race of dwarfs with heads too heavy to hold. Then one brilliant man [...]
Major Shukla woke up as sweat broke out on his forehead. He still remembered the day when the bullet went right through his thigh in cross-border firing. The next thing he knew, he had woken up in the army hospital. The doctor said he was really sorry. They had tried everything. But they could not [...]
Suhana could hear her heart thumping in her chest… she was almost nauseous with anxiety. Her thoughts drifted back to memories from fifteen years back…. that sideways glance from her, that shy smile, that laughter which removed all gloom in any room... How she had approached Suhana on the last day of college... Hesitatingly confessing [...]
‘I will be home, honey. I promise’, said Ronit as Ria sulked. ‘How can you do this to me Ronit? And today? Doesn’t the day mean anything to you? Why is it just me putting an extra effort for our special days? She grumbled. It was the first anniversary of their wedding, and he wasn’t [...]
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