Amidst soaring apartment buildings and glittering malls of Bengaluru, Anjali and Kalpana live in a compact bungalow with jasmine bushes and a washing stone in the backyard. As the city around them changes rapidly, they too have to make a choice − on what to hold on to and what to change.
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.
Tarun likes to imagine his own world where he gives names (and personalities) to people he runs into. Needless to say, he has imagined a whole character to the woman who was the previous owner of ‘The God of Small Things’ that he is now reading on the train. Archita Suryanarayanan tells us what happens.
Archita Suryanarayanan spots a child doing up a drawing on his mother’s smartphone.The incident prompts her to mull over how mobile phones draw people more and more into a virtual world particularly with their technological excellence. She writes down her thoughts in a piece of non-fiction.