Category: A to Z Challenge- 2018

  • #AtoZChallenge- Marvelous Miracle

    In most cultures, a woman is never considered complete unless she becomes a mother. Amita lived in such a society. She was married 8 years ago, yet the couple had no children. Obviously she became the area of concern for her in laws as well as her parents. Every so called well wisher never stopped…

  • #AtoZChallenge- Loving Life

    “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” is never exactly as easier as it sounds. Most adages are easy said than done and Raghav was in no mood to either listen or understand such stereotypical sayings. After all his life was a mess! Another victim of  Quarter Life Crisis and it couldn’t get worse for Raghav.…

  • #AtoZChallenge- K-Pop Keenness

    “What the hell are you listening to?!”, yelled Shreya’s roommate on hearing some unfamiliar music, as she entered the apartment. Shreya was busy cutting the vegetables while happily enjoying her new found tunes. “It’s K-Pop!”, she uttered. “Korean?!”, her room mate sighed and walked away. Shreya has been listening to K-Pop for quite a while…

  • #AtoZChallenge- Japan Journey

    Sarah has a great fascination for Japan. Her obsession with the land of the rising sun started years ago when she was in high school in West Africa. Over the course of time, she developed an innate admiration for Japanese culture, their food and their famous anime. Sarah never stopped dreaming of visiting Japan at…

  • #AtoZChallenge- Idol Inspiration

    Like most of us, Pia loved browsing videos on YouTube. She spent considerable amount of time watching makeup tutorials, styling hacks, cooking channels and inspirational videos. One evening while she was randomly browsing through her feed on YouTube, she stumbled upon Lilly Singh’s channel IISuperwomaII . Pia noticed 3 million subscribers and was surprised to…

  • #AtoZChallenge- Habituated Happiness

    There comes a phase in everybody’s life when nothing seems to go right. Leela was exactly going through the same. She got out of a messy break up and was not in her happy place lately. She could neither eat nor sleep nor concentrate on her job. She felt restless, hopeless and dejected. No matter…

  • #AtoZChallenge- Greatest Guide

    Kriti had the perfect life. A life that most people her age would crave. A great job at Asia’s largest IT firm, supporting friends and family and an independent life in one of the most happening cities of the country. Though this was how her life appeared from the outside, deep within she always experienced…

  • #AtoZChallenge- Felicitous Food

    Daniel rushed out of his apartment, while tying his shoe lace. He was in a hurry to make it to the bus stop on time. But as usual, by the time he reached the stop, he watched the bus pass away helplessly. Curses of not being a morning person he thought. Though it was noon,…

  • #AtoZChallenge- Eye-Opener

    “I wouldn’t recommend this!”, stated the consultant pointing his finger at one of the bullet items on the list. “Why not?!”, Robin exclaimed. “Your scores are no where close to the minimum scores for such a reputed school. Carnegie Mellon is too ambitious”, the consultant brushed off. “Hmmm, fine. I’ll do some more research on…

  • #AtoZChallenge- Dream Destination

    2002 “Are you done with your day dreaming yet?”, asked Roni as he watched his sister Adah fancy pictures of New York from a magazine. “I just can’t get over it. What a great city!”, Adah sighed while flipping pages. “What’s with this obsession lately?”, inquired Roni unable to understand his little sister’s fantasy. “You…