I Mala had offended a real, live homosexual. A fledgling with a half-ripe voice whose name was Anamitro, who had said, “I see myself with a boy. Or a man. Yet, I’m scared that they might skin me. I can never
I sit here alone. I’m on a park bench and the skies are blue. I’m supposed to be working but these days my heart’s just not in it. I give and give and give and all I get back are
Time was at a loss. Satyavati did not have a heaven. Where was she to be put then, post her stipulated time in hell? Heaven is where one goes. And heaven, of course, is what you had wanted in your
Sarmat was about to rescue his crush from the kidnappers when a loud screech woke him up. Lasse Goor, the milkman, had arrived and was unloading his large steel cans off his taang’e[1]. The sound didn’t annoy Sarmat. He had
When you’ve been locked up in an unknown dingy cold room for a time, you realise that the difference between days and nights doesn’t mean much anymore. You don’t notice how the night swallows the bright day and how the
“You can’t play with those boys under the jamun tree!” warned his grandmother as Amit reached out to push the heavy black metal gate open. “Why?” He wanted to scream the why out, but knew better. “Because they’re dirty, filthy
Sahib has died.” Jainat Ram brought me this news along with the foodstuff from the bazaar. “Sahib? Which sahib?” “That semi-blind sahib.” “Oh, the one-eyed Sahib. Jackson. Poor fellow.” I looked out of the window. Beyond the moss covered
When I was a child, my relationship with my mother was often strained. I was five when she signed me up for lessons at the Maharashtra Lawn Tennis Association. I was scared of my coach, who would often berate me
All night her body had been feverish. Tossing and turning on the mattress, she had tried a hundred thousand ways to distract her mind from focusing on the pain. Every time a big surge of the excruciatingly churning pain came,
Many centuries ago, Helix was a walled city. The walls were pulled down as a symbolic gesture of peace. It is truly a very peaceful city, even today. People live in “harmony in Helix,” and the crime rate is almost