Friday, 8 July 2016

A Free Soul

“You have a visitor”, A lady in blue striped white sari tapped Kanika with a wooden stick. She looked up. Her eyes still wet, her kohl dried on the edges of her eyelashes. She stayed motionless for a moment until the lady screamed at her once again. She placed her left hand on the cemented slab and stood up, adjusting her Salwar to hide the red marks all over her body. She walked through the iron barred corridor, adjusting her eyes to the dimly...

Sunday, 3 July 2016

Hostel Tales : Chapter II

Never ending waiting lines! An everyday scenario of my hostel life. I sighed as I saw a long queue of girls waiting for the dinner. I checked my phone. It was not even the dinner time yet! No matter how dreadful the mess food tastes...There will always be someone waiting to swallow the heart rending stuff. The dining hall was flooded with hundreds of girls making it difficult even for CO2 to escape. Though this is nothing unusual but today there was a special reason for the chaos inside the dining hall. It was our hostel feast. The rare occasion...

Friday, 1 July 2016

About Life and Cupcakes

If somebody would ask me to define life; it would make me wonder deeply. Because this single syllable word is unbounded and the traces of the imprints we leave everyday behind us, is till infinity and beyond. But this definition is all prosaic and mind wrecking to think of. So if I have to define it through something I personally connect with in daily life, I would say…umm… Life is just like Cupcakes!!! Eccentric, layered and with creamy...