AaBraa Ka DaabRaa

As the helpless pigeon rattled in the cage, There was chaos in its heart, intent in its fate, The ode to the past struggles came to age, As a wrinkled hand’s glory waved through the speckles of light, The applause and adulation came at a terrible cost, Graves which he dug out showed him out, […]

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Knight’s Oblivion

Aren’t we all Rats? Scampering in our little mazes, sniffing for cheese at the corners, turning a blind eye to the perils of eventually finding it? Aren’t we all Rats for wanting a wanting for a delirious purpose which drives us. Similar or variant, dreams are made of sleepless nights. Daydreams, Of course, smelled specifically […]

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The Wonderful Life Of Zariya

When Zariya crashed on the road from her scooter, she was 19. She was at an age that identified her goals and realized them as dreams. In a split second, she lost everything. A sharp gravel stone pierced the skin under her neck and cut through an internal carotid artery. She lay there, immovable and […]

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Bloody Origins

” Oh Julius, love shall move thee ” the stage actor wailed. The theatre built under the patronage of Lord Count Van Buren of Moon Island, flourished under the present troupe. The plays were being written and enacted perfectly well. A young lad by name William Shakespeare was quickly making a name across the country […]

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Continuum

The days got shorter and so did the nights. The strange phenomenon that the calculations never comprehended. Wasn’t a month later, that the earth stopped rotating. Chaos, unsettling possibilities, reshuffling of resources and everything else took twenty years to be sorted out. Every country merged with the other, and the continents got blurred. The whole […]

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Goddess In The Blood

The fairly desolate village on the banks of the sea would always retire for the day, as soon as the sun went down over the horizon. Their routine seldom changed. The day and it’s work would be left abruptly, and the whole populace would gather around the dazzlingly decorated and yet hauntingly silent temple right in […]

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B.E.C.A.U.S.E

” Accident case… Joseph Raju.. Please..” The forty year old man managed to stitch up words. The phone rung somewhere, and someone down the corridor mopped the floor with a strong antiseptic detergent. The receptionist remained unperturbed and pulled out a folder from under her desk. Government hospitals were infamous for being detached and distant. At […]

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The Blue Intercept

How would you describe a canvas full of meaningless strokes? Of moody hues and liberal turns? Of blacks and omniscient blues?  The woman wearing those distractively red heels walked into the room. He had been very specific about them. A five incher, a magenta muxed , plain and impactful. And yet he noticed nothing as he busily […]

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