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 I see her, getting ready for the battle. I see how angry she is. I see her look into my eyes, trying to anticipate my moves, but she has no idea what she has gotten herself into. I take a step towards

 27th May 2016, 10pm Ginger, the cat we rescued, the one my sister adopted, went missing from home. Well, she didn’t exactly ‘go missing’; we just watched helplessly as she faded into the darkness

 Singing “Let’s forget about ourselves and concentrate on Him” today, for the first time in many years I realized that this is more than just a call to be ‘unselfish’ and not focus on ourselves. Suddenly,

 Why? Why is this happening to me? What have I done to deserve this? What have I done for him to cause me so much pain? Why must I suffer like this? Why can’t he just leave me alone?I scream in anguish

“How are you not upset about it? How did you not sue the doctor?”, is the most common response when I tell people why my right eye is slightly ‘strange’. Honestly, I’ve never looked at it as a problem.

November 8th 2015 1:55pm The day of the Avalon concert in Bangalore. 60km away from the venue and we have so much to do. “Bro, you’ve got to pick up Avalon and make sure they’re at the concert grounds

October 2009, the night of our college fest. I remember walking into my house, along with a friend, after the fest had ended. We were going out to another friend’s place and had decided to stop at my house

 “I try to memorize the lines that I’ve written but I can hardly read them anymore. The teardrops begin to fall on the crumpled piece of paper clenched in my fist. I can hear my heart beating, louder

 11:25 am, my watch reads, and I’ve already begun to panic. Reporting time is still five minutes away and I’m pretty sure most of them will make it on time, but I’m so used to panicking five minutes

 For the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to sit with Nisa and help her feed over thirty strays every day (Read Nisa’s story here) I have watched her call each one of them by name, I

 Anyone who’s traveled to Mumbai by train will know the meaning of the word ‘crowded’. Your best chance of getting a place to sit is to carry a chair with you. And if you’re standing, you better be

 When I was little, I remember I was at a packed bus stop one day, waiting to get home. A stranger, much older than I, came up to me and started talking to me. He told me I’m beautiful and I, as any

 “I only did what anyone else would’ve done”, he said, trying not to look into their eyes directly, “it is not fair that you make a big deal about it”. The crowd surrounded him. “Tell us what happened”,

 “It’s going to be okay”, she thought, trying to comfort herself as she sat down in the corner of the room. But as soon as she did, she stood up and began to pace up and down again. “He’s been gone

 See the fat dog on the left? That’s Gus. He is just one of the many dogs Nisa feeds in Koregaon Park, Pune, every night.  Gus is special – he’s a lot wider than the others and he’s greedy –

 He woke up that morning facing her side of the bed again. She wasn’t there; she was gone. He wished he could go back to sleep; it was his only escape.Her death was killing him slowly. He could still

 “You put salt in the tea? What is the matter with you?” she yelled. She turned to him and saw his eyes tear up. His bowed his head down in shame. It was the third time this week he had done something

“Cooking, cleaning, doing the dishes and washing the clothes! How is it all taken care of every day!”, Karan asked, as Joshua plopped a chapatti on his plate. Karan had just recently moved in with Joshua