Sarah finishes reading a book and a chain of events unfurl following that. Anupama Krishnakumar writes a story with strange twists and turns.
Set in the pre-independent era, two men, one a fiesty Bengali and the other a rebellious Tamizh, share the moments from their life and times, through words, hued with utmost respect, patriotic vigour and a tinge of poetry. Bhargavi Chandrasekharan presents a series of moving handwritten letters, as seen from the vantage point of one of the pen pals.
A boy from the future remembers the day he had first realised that letters could actually be written by a human hand. And as he learns the art, the past becomes the new future. Archita Suryanarayanan tells the story.
Amritha is a new mother, desperately trying to cope with the arduous challenges of motherhood. Between the constant demands of a wailing baby, no one to turn to for help and support and an overwhelming sense of exhaustion, she’s almost at her wits end when a letter arrives from Darjeeling.
A woman faces the prospect of selling her house, when a letter from her late husband sets her off on a new plan to save it. Sudha Nair tells the story.
Don’t stories live their lives? Don’t they dream like us? Don’t they evolve? Don’t they aspire to be extraordinary like we do? Isn’t each of us a story after all? This is a story of one such story named Tix. By Rajarshi Banerjee.
The choices we make today resonate throughout our lives. If given a chance, would you still make the same choice which you made in the past? How much of your present are you going to sacrifice to secure how much of your future? In this allegorical story, Vishal Anand meditates on the limitations of leading a life on the edge, without a wide margin, and the emotional turbulence it may bring to us in the future.
Vani Viswanathan writes a story where the unlikeliest of people sympathise with one another – after all the world is divided into haves and have-nots of unimaginable variety.
A young woman holds an uneasy relationship with coffee, one that flummoxes her partner. Namitha Varma tells the story of the role the black brew plays in the protagonist’s life.