It was a grand undertaking. The morning was misty and cold. The wind pierced my armour like the innumerable arrows that made Bheeshma’s deathbed. I was off to a battle. That was what I understood. As it sometimes happened, I could make out that it was a dream. It was sometime in the future. The […]
Category: Stories
The story of the sour grapes
Nograpo walked slowly, his tail tucked between his legs. He was deep in thought. Nograpo was a fox. He was the wisest and the strongest among the foxes in the island. His world was the island- almost. There were nearby islands. It was an archipelago. He knew that other foxes existed in other islands. During […]
The Gift of Death.
Raphy’s first memories of Medical College, Trichur were pleasant. But they also included the unpleasant one about the stray dogs. And the attack of epilepsy. It was in his second year, and his grandmother had just died, leaving him an orphan. The grief was unbearable. Nobody could understand it, and that made it worse. Grandmothers […]
Red Neanderthals and a World in Blue.
Jeei-Me peeked out through the lone bush. It was a magnificent sight. The snow covered peaks loomed in the distance. The mid-morning sun was cool; cool. He longed for the two or three months of summer that were long past. That couldn’t be helped. One could hug the hide-sewn cloth tightly around oneself- that was […]
Miss Liji and me.
“Can I come with you?” She asked. I looked at her with irritation. It was clear that she was interested in me. Middly- what a name! Like Iddly. I actually liked Middly. She was kind of cute. But her hair was curly. I hated that. Why do girls have pimples, by the way? They left […]