A 33-year-old woman’s craving for passion and the tale of her affair with a younger man come alive in Poornima Laxmeshwar’s story.
Rishitha’s story is about a woman’s conflicting thoughts on her interactions with people, her dilemmas on her child’s upbringing, and her way of dealing with self-hatred and hope.
A man’s slippers are washed away during a heavy spell of rains. Anupama Krishnakumar’s story captures his thoughts about his lost footwear.
The first monsoon shower is perhaps the most eagerly anticipated natural event of the year. It brings with it joy, excitement, the soaring of spirits and the plummeting of temperatures. It is just the right occasion for some familial love and bonding, as this flash fiction by Shruthi Rao demonstrates.
Kavya and Nikesh travel to Coonoor each year for the rains, to keep a pact going. Parth Pandya’s story tells you how the pact came about and what’s unique about it.
An old woman who has spent all her life in her ancestral home in Kerala tells us how her home used to be one with her- living and breathing with her in the verdant environs. When she returns after a brief stay with her son in a distant metropolis she finds her old home struggling for breath in its altered surroundings. How will they – the house and the old woman – overcome this difficult situation? Indu Parvathi writes a short story.
Home is where the heart is. In this piece, Sanchita Dwivedi fast forwards her life by a few decades and imagines herself revisiting the familiar surroundings of her house, reliving the memories that once formed everyday life.
Do you remember your first home? The place where you could do whatever you felt like. The place where life was a bliss. Leaving that place would have been so painful. Raghu Sarangarajan talks about a person leaving his first home.
A mother, a singer, navigates the world of music with her young daughter. Vani Viswanathan tells you how the mother deals with the surprises life throws at her.