A Mythical Bird – 1

(A fiction based on the life of a lady doctor- Dr Arundhati, who joins a social work organization in the Himalayas and discovers that things are not what they appear to be… Ed.) Prologue : The End “ Angular mind – angular body. You cant even support me well !” She twisted her torso to […]

That Unkindly Stammer

The shivery utterance was all he had, the words would play hide and seek with his mouth, the excitement to deliver his ideas would be blocked by that unkindly stammer, as if he was banged by a hammer, no, he isn’t a handicapped, neither he is a loser, he is just a bit more edgy […]

A life will be left behind!

A life will be left behind! The house you called your home for long, the people whom you made your own. The words you sang to share your heart, a few of them were once your part. They all will go, forgotten to mind A life will be left behind… Some you’ll forget and some […]

कोरोना

                  – कोरोना –                  असहाय पड़ी मानव की कृति,                     रुका पड़ा सब काम है।                    कोरोना के चक्कर में देखो   […]

Tim Sebastian

Life in The Limbo It was a hot day in May. A magical afternoon. Air shimmered, leaves floated in the air eddies as the sun beat down on the dusty streets of my village. I was free like a dog: a dog with no mistress and no chain. I sniffed. I snuffled. My nose turned […]

लॉक डाउन : तीन अति लघु कथाएं

इंतज़ार  वह थाली पीट रही थी | लगातार अपने थरथराते हाथों से…  पिछले कई दिनों से वह थाली पीट रही है | पडोसी भी सिर्फ मुस्कुराते हैं और अंदर चले जाते हैं | उसने बेटे की खाकी वर्दी धोकर, तह लगा कर तैयार रखी थी – ताकि वह जब कपड़े बदलने आये तो उसे देर […]

विकलांग नहीं हूं मैं …

आज 3 दिसम्बर विश्व विकलांग दिवस के अवसर पर विकलांगजनों की तरफ से मेरे द्वारा लिखी गई एक कविता – विकलांग नहीं हूं मैं … कहने को विकलांग हूं मैं सबकी नजरों में बेचारा और असहाय! किसी ने पूर्व जन्म का पाप बताया तो किसी ने प्रकृति को दोषी बनाया! मेरी बुद्धि को दूसरों से […]

Storytelling by Shobhit

Fishbone Collective invites you to a storytelling session by Shobhit Singh on Sunday 10th September 9 AM onwards. The meeting place would be small hut(where the SHG meeting usually happens), Cubbon Park, Bangalore. Entry free. Please do come and get your friends too. Shobhit will be telling stories written by Munshi Premchand and Saadat Hasan Manto This storytelling is for adults only.     […]

Silence of lambs – a parable..

Srishti was a little girl. She was full of questions, inexhaustible energy and a lot of spontaneous ideas and fun..as little girls usually are. Her family was proud of her. Her father felt very happy when she recited “Black sheep, black sheep..” to his office colleagues, whenever they visited. Yes, the whole family was proud […]

A little lie

P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Ankit stood in the center of the room. Principal ma’am took a step towards him and hissed: where do you learn such evil things from? Ankit looked up – then lowered his moist eyes- and kept wriggling his toes in his cheap canvas shoes. He wanted to say many things, […]

The child- last part.

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The child- A story..

Brahma, the creator. His one day equals our one million years. Brahma’s one cycle- Kalpa- equals our one thousand cycles. But each Kalpa begins with a day of healing and wholeness. That one day, Dhanvantri, the first healer of creation, blesses everyone with a panacea. It is called Kalpataru day: the day when impossible can […]