Born Spectator

“Did you know that cleanliness is next to godliness?” it asked him, hoping to strike a conversation. It knew that the task ahead was arduo...

“Hey, you got a minute?” she called out to him. Her voice seemed raspy from days of non-stop counting, as if they were spent measuring eac...

“Do you have feelings?” she asked. He was a bit perplexed with this seemingly innocuous question: “What do you mean? Everybody has fee...

He looked out to the street swelling with pride. Spring was in the air, rains from the day before could still be felt on the skin, and the...

While the whole world was silent, there was a whirring noise coming from a nondescript corner of the reticent house. All one could see of ...

“You need to take a shower,” she said matter-of-factly. “I had my shower in the morning, and you don’t need to remind me about tomorro...

“Don’t you like me?” asked the voice. He paused, heaved a deep sigh, and attempted to hide the pensiveness in his look. This wasn’t a ...

“Do you see how I spread light in your life?” she said gleefully. “ Tamaso mā jyotirgamaya or whatever, taking you from the darkness to l...

“Why do you treat me like this?” she said irritatingly. “Like what?” he replied with an irreverent shrug, as he continued setting up t...

"Do you realize that this moment, of you and me, in a lustful embrace, is the denouement of a scintillating history of human species ...

As it rose from its pedestal with a distinct sound, the world stood up and took notice. Its expression was almost sombre, and as it ro...

He wanted to set her free. Right now, when the chill in the midnight air and the frigidness of his own heart were stinging him and his sou...

It felt like hell had frozen over and were falling straight on his head. It wasn't the first time he had this feeling. On all such...

In these darkest hours of my existence in the middle of this melancholic night, when the rain outside befalls the putrid leftovers of last ...