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Shubhrika DograAugust 14, 2016
Baba Raised Me Well
“One day, you will know the value of handwritten letters. One day, you will realize how beautiful it feels to…
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M. MeghaJuly 21, 2016
Late
“Beta, can you please get my medicines from the chemist”, yelled Sagar’s mother, her voice just slightly louder than the…
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Shubhrika DograJuly 8, 2016
Indebted To Honor
“I was partially unconscious the first time I saw her. It was her voice that woke me up, from a…
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Kanika SainiJuly 1, 2016
Chairs
Sitting cross-legged across the table they were hesitant to make eye contact and even more shy to smile. Reading the…
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Shubhrika DograJune 20, 2016
And Once Again, History Will Repeat Itself
“It wouldn’t matter a few years later honey. Maybe it would but it wouldn’t hurt this much.” I lied to…
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Shubhrika DograJune 10, 2016
The Forbidden Wish List
I kept walking around in the house like a loon in the dark evening for she was asleep and the…
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Shubhrika DograJune 5, 2016
Because To Everyone, It’s Just A Message. To Me, It’s The Truth!
“It wasn’t really too hard to believe when I fell in love with you. It wasn’t really too hard to…
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M. MeghaMay 26, 2016
CUT
“Cut along the vein, not across. That way it will be quicker”. The words echoed in his head. He would…
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Shubhrika DograMay 24, 2016
The Letter
“She wrote you a letter.” He came into my study, while I was sitting there alone, this evening and handed…
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Shubhrika DograMay 22, 2016
Late Nights And Early Mornings
*The late nights and early mornings will pay you off one day.* From the moment we are all born, the…
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Shubhrika DograMay 21, 2016
What Love Did, Love Never Could
“Every night, every single night, she will give in. Not because she is made to by force, but because she…
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TgMay 19, 2016
The Hand That Spoke
“What? Do I look like an idiot?” I said in anger. “No Daju but it is true” He insisted I…
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Shubhrika DograMay 13, 2016
The Treat for Good Marks
This morning, in the park, I saw a little girl playing with her mother. She is four years old. A…
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Shubhrika DograMay 12, 2016
Irony And Surprise
“Laziness, the music that hit the eardrums and the stars too are all in unison tonight. This seems like a…
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Shubhrika DograMay 12, 2016
When Stories Unfold Stories
*Sometimes, we read a story, we feel related to it and it so happens that we fall in love with…
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Shubhrika DograMay 11, 2016
The Tangled Escape
Thrice, in one single day, have I felt that I am extremely difficult to be understood. We spend at least…
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Shubhrika DograMay 8, 2016
Returns of the Lost Ones
“It isn’t the first time that I would be transforming him into words. That’s certainly what I’m best at. As…
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Prashant KumarApril 28, 2016
Almost – 1.0
“You are again late, why did you even bother to wake up?” Mr. Banarjee was frowning at Sameer Srivastava, everybody…
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Shubhrika DograApril 24, 2016
The Birthday Without Her!
Deja-vu! A concept that all of us have been hearing about, reading about or talking about since the time we…
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Shubhrika DograApril 24, 2016
Beauty of the Truths that Lies Define
*The one thing I feared was to have moments so beautiful that they might be cherished, however, vulnerable too.* We…
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Shubhrika DograApril 18, 2016
Parting on the One-Way Street
I had no idea about how people parted ways with each other for real. It’s so difficult for me to…
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Shubhrika DograApril 17, 2016
The Symphonies of Rock Music
It was a usual day, the usual morning, the usual way to college, the usual lectures, the usual conversations and…
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Shubhrika DograApril 15, 2016
EVERYTHING THAT CHILDHOOD OFFERED!!
“Dear Ma, On the platform that day, I had seen her. She was reading the book ‘The Notebook by Nicholas…
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Shubhrika DograDecember 14, 2015
A Photograph
The house was a mess after we had decided to move to London. The packing seemed more like unpacking from the…
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