Akshay always found his pull towards their ancestral mansion in Kolkata. The mansion creaks with splintering wooden floors, faded photographs dotting the walls, and pages from history seem to spill out. Every nook and cranny in that house seemed to…
King Viren ruled the prosperous kingdom of Avaran. His power, charm, and unpredictability fascinated those who came in contact with him. He desired all things-men or women, riches or war. But one thing he had never conquered was love. As…
Though the streets of Paharganj never actually slept, tonight they felt disturbingly still. Inspector Arjun Malhotra slouched in his car, the weight of another missing person’s case heavy on him. He flipped open the case file – Rajan Sharma, Age…
The wastes were burning fiercely in the night, and thick clouds of smoke covered up the cold air. The smell of burnt metal and fuel got into my lungs, making it hard to breathe. Ravi and I sprawled across the…
The Zamindar house or The Roybari Mondir Tala haunted the edge of the darkness, a lost artifact of ages. Arnab Roy stepped out of the taxi, staring at the decaying mansion that had once been his family’s pride. The vast…
The Glittering City of NeoTown NeoTown was a city that never slept. Their high-rise buildings scraped heaven’s floor and sparkled under the brilliant artificial sunshine of high-tech mirrors orbiting the Earth. Every shop around was buzzing, yearning to sell the…
Paharganj has always been a sleepy village, the days boiling with the syntaxes of farmers tending their crops and the odd distant echo of temple bells in the evening. But today, it was eerily silent. Last evening, a strange tempest…
Rahul opened his eyes, head heavy with sleep. He was expecting the buzz of voices, or the light rustle of papers, as his classmates moved to the next lesson. But the silence was frightening, it was absolute silence. He sat…
The very last thing that I remember is the flicker of the antiquated neon sign: “Roy’s Repair – Phones Fixed Fast.” I have walked into this awful shack with a busted phone in hand- the screen shattered, with the battery…
A road trip to the Himachal hills was all Vikram and his friends wanted for a perfect weekend and a perfect escape from their 9 to 5 jail. But who knew that their jail was far better than the prison…
