At 9 AM every weekday, Suchetan sat at his desk and followed the same routine. He opened up his laptop, plugged in the power cable and waited to see the value of his capital before starting work. Every day he saw the value of his money going down. He had pictures of Goddess of Fortune … Read more
“Can you tell me what’s in this envelope?” Shashi Godbole asked Judith. Shashi had come straight from the airport to her office. She had returned from a business trip to China. “Open it and see, Shashi,” Judith said. She took the envelope from Shashi and tried to open it. “No..no..no – don’t open it. It’s … Read more
At 9.30 AM, the doorbell rang and 82-year-old Bapu opened the door of his house. He found an apple outside it. It intrigued him, to say the least. He gave it a cold but close look. It indeed was an apple, his favourite fruit. A nice, red, ripe apple plucked fresh from a tree, Bapu … Read more
“Ladies and Gentlemen, May I have your kind attention please?” announced Jaspal Singh from the stage. “This occasion deserves special cheers. Can everyone please raise a toast to Mr. and Mrs. Malvinder Singh?” Mr. Malvinder Singh and Mrs. Gurvinder Kaur started walking to the podium. It was their fiftieth wedding anniversary. As the 76-year-old ‘groom’ … Read more
Thimappa gathered the garbage with his shovel and pushed it on to the cloth sheet. It was at that time that he saw a small object shining through. He lifted one end of the cloth sheet and Santosh held the other end. Together they lifted the garbage, swung the sheet, and pushed the garbage into … Read more
Ten Thousand rupees for every boy she evaluated as her prospective groom was not bad. Six months back, Sanjana’s father had relented to this arrangement. It was a nice new source of income for her. She had never planned to get married. If possible she would never marry, but, in any case, she didn’t plan … Read more