As stargazers across the world wonder whether Comet ISON will survive its test of fire as it moves close to the sun, Vikram puts his impending wedding with Kalpana through the test too. A M Aravind tells us their story, interwoven with the cosmic spectacle that wasn’t.
On a December morning, Nicole Varghese pulls out her personal journal from the closet and begins reading. The result is a journey down memory lane. Here’s a work of fiction by Rrashima Swaarup Verma.
A student runs into his professor after 25 years and begins visiting the old man every time he gets the chance to visit the town.M. Mohankumar pens a story around what happens during one such visit when the professor and student talk about a dream.
An incident from a person’s past continues to haunt him years after it happened so much so that It affects his relationship with the woman he loves. Parth Pandya writes a short story.
Vani Viswanathan captures four different moods from using mobile phones, through four byte-sized stories.
Ammu, married only six months to Manoj, who lives in another country, longs to know him better. The muted conversations they have on the phone as his parents sit listening around her aren’t helping. A mobile phone comes to the rescue. Sudha Nair tells us how.
Meera and Siddharth are reeling from the sting of their first fight. They stare at their mobile phones, aching for the other’s call. And then a call arrives… Anupama Viswanathan tells the story.
Krish meets Chris, a boxer like himself, in Vegas. The encounter makes Krish reminisce about a different life in a different place – Shom Biswas writes the story about one’s attachment to a small town.
A man reminisces the relationship he has had with rain through his years, from a point when rain changed from being ‘it’ to ‘she.’ Sanjay Gopinath pens the story.