Tag Archives: Fiction

“A SOUTH INDIAN!,” Mr. Mathur exclaimed. “And a divorcee? Radha have you lost your mind? At your age, you can find a younger bachelor.” “But, Daddy, he is not to be blamed for the divorce. The girl was having an affair with her boss. The marriage did not last more ...

“Don’t be silly, Dev,” Radha blushed and looked up at Mahadevan, who had his arm around her shoulders. They were sitting in his company car, which was parked on a deserted curb near the restaurant where they had dined together. Radha had been working for Mahadevan for the last 3 ...

When Radha reached their Nariman Point office, she recognized Mr. V Mahadevan as the gentleman she had bumped into the previous day while rushing out of the interviewer’s cabin. “I took your resume from my colleague in the other office. I found that you could fit in here since you ...

Radha reached home an hour later and told her mother about her interview. “Keep trying. You need not get dejected. Even the great writer G B Shaw had faced rejection slips for his works, initially. Eventually, things turned in his favor and he died a rich man. Life is like ...

“Ms. Mathur, we could have thought of employing you right away, if you had at least an experience of 6 months. You are just out of college and college education does not help once you start working. I’ll keep your application on file and get back to you if something ...

10 year old Rahul went to his mother one day and asked, “Friends are friends. Why do we say ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’?” To that her mother-in-law said, “I will tell you a story. Then you will understand.” This was what Rahul’s grandmother told him: There ...

Ajit and Deven went outside the house and Deven said good bye. As Ajit entered his home, his grand father, who had recently come from their native place, stopped him. “You are fast friends. It is difficult to find friends like you in today’s times,” his grand father praised him. ...