The cab was speeding along, on the highway. And so was Khushi’s mind! She smiled as she recalled the day the two of them came back from school with their report cards, and Raja had actually passed in his eighth standard final exam, after spending two years in the same…

Can this question ever leave her mind, thought Sunaina. No one would ever wish any mother, having to face such a question! “Time is running out! We may not have enough time to try and save both the children! Who do you want us to try to save, first?” Came…

I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they don’t. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here. I don’t think I have ever found a place where I belong. “Aaj mein upar; aasmaan neeche!’ …

The Fury Of Alakhnanda ‘In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences’, such true words said by Robert Green Ingersoll.. The mighty Alakhnanda flowed; as if completely oblivious to the havoc that it had created, barely a few hours ago. The dancing water, with the sunrays falling…

We all have read the story of ‘The Wind and The Sun’, the one about who is stronger between the two of them. Well, let me narrate it in short! Once there was an argument between Wind and the Sun, both claiming to be more powerful than the other. Their…

“Yes, Past is dead! Buried! It will never return! But is it to be forgotten? I don’t think so! How can we forget our past? This very present of ours has been built over our past. Then why do you suggest that we forget the past?” Ritika sat across the…

How amazing it is to visualise Life as a big oak tree; with its huge branches spreading all around, encompassing and inviting one and all, to take shelter and enjoy the shade! The Tree Of Life …. I was sitting on a bench under a big oak tree in the…

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. — Paulo Coelho It was just not…

“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.” Brad Meltzer. “Miss Ami, I know that our parents know the best, and are very much our well-wishers. But, tell me, do they lose all their knowledge after a certain age? And, do they then, still remain our…