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Meenakshi was just sitting down for a marathon session of Mario Kart when her doorbell rang. Thinking she had misheard, since she wasn’t expecting company on a Friday night, she ignored it. But then the bell rang again and she huffed, pausing her game to open the door. In front of her stood Subhash, her…
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Simran has been standing in front of her mirror for five minutes now and no matter how many times she tells her feet to move, they refuse to move. She has been staring at herself, her clothes and the way she has lined her eyes for those five minutes. It’s not like she can see…
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What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this?On a quiet night, what are the odds? Rahul could not sing. He knew that thank you very much. But he couldn’t help himself. He was happy, flying on cloud nine, filled to bursting with an unnameable energy. His sister would have called it the…
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It’s Sunday evening. Swapna who is never organized has ironed and hung the clothes she will wear for her Monday morning lecture, her laptop is charging on her desk, her fruits and bread have been stowed away in the illegal mini-fridge that she has in her hostel room and she is folding clothes, warm out…
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By the time Tamanna was ten, she could read the signs of an imminent fight between her parents. Mother number one would bang doors a little too loudly. Mother number two would start deliberately apologising for the smallest of things. Tamanna knew from that point, it would take two days for the passive aggressive fight…
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Alka came into the employ of Maitreyi Dalmia when she was twenty and Maitreyi was forty. Alka’s mother was a cook at the Dalmia seniors’ house and that is how the two women had been introduced. Maitreyi had told her she would be the Chief of Staff and at the time, Alka had laughed at…
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The sound of breaking glass alerted Rukmini that mummy and dadi were at it again, having a shouting match over whose fault it was that the dal for lunch had been burnt. Dadi said that mummy wanted to poison her father-in-law and son by feeding them inedible dal. In retaliation, mummy had broken the glass.
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