Working title: The pale-yellow disc by Akhilesh Shetty A pale-yellow disc with weak grey spots over it was situated in the centre of the clear dark sky. The disc had a radial glow with no stars in the vast darkness to share it with. He looked at the disc with…

A bee is small. It is so tiny that it’s difficult to comprehend how small it is. A door’s length is about 200 times the size of a bee so the width of a slightly open door is equivalent to a 5 lane highway for a bee. Grossly inadequate in…

A high-rise building transcends the typical x-y axis heavy model of thinking by leaning heavily on the z-axis. A monument to human intelligence that enables this efficient use of space; the result is that the same plot of land that previously in the x-y axis model of thinking could house…

I know of my house from the inside; its essence lies in its center. The opaque walls kindle a sense of security, it hides foreign eyes from penetrating beyond what’s necessary. …

I am always terrified after completing a piece or a story. I feel empty with nothing left to write about. Everything I think is not good, true, interesting, smart, or appealing enough. If I do have an interesting idea it slowly reveals itself to be a superficial, ignorant thought with…

I found myself thinking about my first memory. I am in my mother’s lap, she is rocking me to sleep in a dark room, right next to an open door. I don’t remember my age but I was young enough to not care about such things. It’s after sundown. I…

There was a brief moment of relief between graduating high school and going to college where I had no obligations as a student. I had the option of doing nothing and I exercised it. On a day in this period of my life; I was sitting on the sofa in…

I was sitting in the living room of my apartment in Mumbai, it was late, late enough that even Mumbai was asleep. The window of the apartment was open. In front of me, I saw trees, slums, and at a distance, buildings, all compressed into one image from the 18th…

The orange sun paints the sky pink as it’s setting. The birds are performing an orchestra with their chirps, some are up in the air flying with their flock and decorating the sky. They look like ornaments hung by nature to enhance the beauty of the scene. This performance only…