Limited deal expiring in 15 minutes?! Her fingers hovered over the laptop’s keyboard as she quivered in anticipation. The race has begun! Her eyes darted towards the timer as the countdown began. Wait! Did she really need the Kitchen King Automatic Vegetable Chopper? But…what a deal she was getting! Almost …
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Life in the Times of Corona Family time for me always meant loud, noisy get-togethers. Hot drinks, the quintessential Assam tea, and cold drinks, you know the on-the-rocks kind, served every odd hour, snacks meaty or non-meaty passed around and devoured with gusto, cackles of wild-eyed laughter, snorts, and impromptu …
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The River – By Meghali Barua The Red River…scintillating yet mysterious Hiren looked at the meandering river flowing by. It seemed angry, almost violent. The Red River, he remembered its name suddenly. “It must be bloody…that’s why the name,” little Hiren thought to himself. Hiren’s village, a little nondescript, not-on-the-map …
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Everybody wanted a piece of her. Today, any station you tune in on the idiot box, you can hear the universal intoning, excitement building almost a crescendo, ‘we want her…we need her.’ Fools! She wanted to scream. If she could, she would definitely have curled her cold, icy lips to …
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Have you ever driven by the City Girls College? Yes, I am talking about the old, a rather ancient college still standing tall and proud since the British Raj days, just like an ol’ man who’s unsure of his place in the new, strange world. I am sure, if you …
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Dear Readers, before you read this, you have to know that this article of mine is not a travelogue on the great Kaziranga National Park. Today, I am writing about my own experiences in the Park, a forest so deep and so mysterious…a land which has never failed to mesmerize …
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As she lay on the unfamiliar hotel bed, she could see his tall silhouette by the French-styled window, a dark shape outlined by the silvery moonbeams coming stealthily into the room, like an unwanted, unwelcome intruder. Much as she did not want to, she could not help throwing shy, …
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SECOND INNINGS! When she was in her early twenties, as a young woman then, she realized to her utter secret mirth that she was in love…and not just any other love…it was the typical head-over-heels love! Like any other love-struck mortal, she thought then that her whole life was finally …
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It was the month of May, year 2015.This particular month back here in the Eastern corner of India ushers in a really weird weather. The day may start with a blazing sun and an azure sky and you might feel that “Damn! It is going to be really hot today!”…but …
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Along Came Bonny Meghali Barua