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CURRENT ISSUE

Fiction Special

Stories by
Siddharth Chowdhury | Farah Ahamed | Vijayalakshmi Sridhar

Volume 3 | Issue 4 [August 2023]

THE VENDOR OF SWEETS

Volume 3 | Issue 4 [August 2023]

About a month back I was travelling to Jamshedpur on the Bhubaneshwar Rajdhani for some official work. As the train stopped at the Koderma station in the early morning, I saw out of the window, a food cart with the legend ‘Anukul Misthan Bhandar’ printed at the top. That name, in a flash, took me 40 years back to my childhood in Patna. And then I saw the familiar figure of my childhood, in his off-white kurta shirt and dhoti, standing near the cart and …
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POACHED EGGS

Volume 3 | Issue 4 [August 2023]

‘Marry me Nuru,’ Jaffer said in his precise, measured tone. ‘Together we’ll build our future in a new Kenya.’
He was standing opposite her desk at the Chambers where she worked. She’d met him several months earlier and they’d struck up a friendship.
Nuru had a Pitman’s Secretarial Diploma and a driver’s licence from the first Ladies Driving School in Nairobi. With her natural beauty and qualifications she felt she deserved a man who really appreciated her…

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DEEP FRIED

Volume 3 | Issue 4 [August 2023]

I spotted him on the 7.20 am local service to Avadi immediately. Pot-like belly that swelled in the front and hung low until his thigh, face bloated with the ears protruding out of the skull. Only the trunk was missing. But his fat arms compensated for the girth and width. Biju looked just like Pillayar or Ganesh, the Hindu God of beginnings.
“Had a hearty breakfast?” he enquired, stuffing something from a paper packet into his mouth…

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