Days are short while nights are cold and long. Long winter nights? Perfect. The sun sets before 5pm taking with it many colours of the sky. The chaukidaar kaka walks over the garden grass clearing his throat to light the high pole lights and in a split second, all varieties of bugs hover around it…
The decorations were breathtakingly done. The work done by the decorators was impeccable. Everything was colour-coordinated and most of it was pink and white. Those are the favourite colours of the bride, after all! It was the typical Indian wedding, with teenagers having vanilla ice creams, kids running around and their parents trying to stop…
The cold wind would whisper through my room, as I’d sit on my desk in the after-hours, to study for my final exams. Maybe it was then, maybe it started before, perhaps it was always there. It was a habit for me to study for my exams throughout the night, where everything was silent, while…
“Look at her..she looks so sassy. Such characterless girls are taking down our nation we must say.” WOW! I’m considered as a characterless woman just by my appearance and attitude? WHY? Because I wear what I’m comfortable in? Because I play with innovations? Because I abuse? Because I talk to multiple Boys? Because I watch…
It was the second day of the summer vacation, and I was literally feeling boring. When there were few days left for vacations, I was like "when will my vacations start? I have to do so much of things." But now I realized it to be so boring. The next morning was destined to be…
She stood there at the doorstep. Wearing a red T-shirt and cream coloured trousers. She was not like all those women. Like all those women in sarees. Women who bowed their heads. Women in ghoongats. Women who made perfect round rotis or idlis. Who made the best saambar or daal in the whole world. Who…
Story of 21-year-old Brazilian college student Jade Coelho de Miranda, who was infected last year. Last October, I frequently hung around a large park at my college, the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. I didn’t think much of all the mosquitoes in the area — until I broke out in a rash…
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