THE CONVOLUTED JALEBI

She looked in the mirror. Her face puckered and tears started rolling down her sunscreen-applied cheeks. She noticed she was crying. Like...

I can hear my mother meddle with the vegetables to prepare something for my father. I’m trying to make sense of my writing. I’m trying to...

She was hopeless. Always at the extremes. But one thing kept her “sane” and that was her connection with her God- Dheera. It all began in...

Her diamond nose ring shines through the sunlight. My shadow is towards my right, As the metro swerves it's trail and we go underground,...

She saw herself smiling in her reflection on the painting in front of her. Goddess Saraswathi sat cross legged totally in sync with the...

John Mayer’s track “Gravity” plays in the background. She’s an innate optimist. When Mayer sings “Oh, twice as much ain’t twice as good”,...

I sat there looking at the rainbow. Not in the sky. The rainbow I had doodled which was the wallpaper on my screen. I keep wondering why...

I noticed her pink lace. One untied. I looked up to check her out. And then I checked out all of them. In the ladies coach, one was...

She wanted to write in first person. But she doesn't ever put herself first, so she always writes in second person. She is listening to a...

The stare was really confusing. I'll show you why it was confusing. The eyeballs were loaded with disgust yet they popped out like they...

She gathered her spirit back. She smiled to herself while the wind kissed her face treading in the streets of her city. She felt a...

A wolf she saw. But it was a dog. She's telling again. She must show. She was on her regular sprint to finish her ten thousand steps and...

Two girls sat in a restaurant. They just decided to not lift their eyes up and look around. Neither at people nor at the menu or the...

There was this beautiful cow. Aye. wait. As a writer I’m supposed to show and not tell. I’m telling you that the cow was beautiful. Let...

The beat upon beat in the song mesmerized her, it over stimulated her brain and now she can’t sleep. There was a drag of a phrase in the...

One particular morning, the priest got up with a nightmare. His dream during the early morning revealed that his secret would be exposed...

1) Our traditional and liberal selves can coexist. Sometimes, they will tear each other apart but gently remind them to live and let...

Once upon a time, there lived the Jumpsome Fivesome- Sarojamma, Devamma, Kariyamma, Chinamma and Kempamma. These women always jumped with...

He looked at her. She didn’t look at him. The Gaunt man got angry. But he had just learnt some breathing exercises at his anger...

A Daisy lay aloof amidst a bunch of daffodils. The Daisy was ignored for a long time. The daisy thought to itself “Why are the daffodils...