An ageing teacher and his students in a school that is in a Maoist insurgency-affected area are engaged in an interesting discussion on Ahimsa. Hari Ravikumar tells the story – based on real life incidents – of how the boys’ nuanced understanding of the subject informs their response to violence.
A Hindu family and a Muslim family find themselves caught in riots in Calcutta in 1946. Based on true events that involved her grandparents, Chidambarakumari tells the story of small but life-altering events of courage that embody the human spirit.
It was July 2013. The Telegram service in India had been closed down. Rajagopalan was transported back to the summer of 1955, when he had sent a telegram from Jabalpur to Thanjavur. Raghu Sarangarajan tells the story, based on true incidents, of the telegram’s message and the aftermath.
A mother misses her baby girl, now an angst-ridden teenager. Sudha Nair tells the story.
For most of us who live in cities away from childhood homes, a trip back home is always full of surprises and a walk down memory lane. We rarely get the time to notice the changes, not in the things we lost, but in the people we loved the most, our parents. And sometimes, when we stop rushing through busy lives and let the tiniest memories wash over our senses, we feel, a true sense of being, at home. Debleena Roy writes a short story.
Little Ria loves to dream and is full of creativity. But she fears how the world would perceive her and her ideas. Anupama Krishnakumar tells Little Ria’s tale.
Bhargavi Chandrasekharan envisages a mercurial artist in the equipoised wife, rearranging the little pieces of the grand old Tamizh epic, Silappadikaram. Here is the tale of an innocent woman, treading into the frightening and fantastical folds of her mind ,one thought at a time.
Tara is wonderstruck at the giant thingamabob in her son’s house. Sudha Nair tells the story.
Sadako, suffering from leukaemia due to exposure to radiation from the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, makes a wish. Vani Viswanathan tells you how.