I hear the gate clang shut as I place the teacups on a tray beside a plateful of their favourite Karanchi Bakery’s fruit biscuits. I greet them back to their cheery “salam” as I put the tray on the table on the front porch and retreat back to watch them from the door as they settle down on wicker chairs […]

An enormous cumulonimbus hung low in the sky, smudged here and there with varying shades of lead. Lightning streaked across the horizon followed by low rumbles of thunder, petrichor wafted up from the ground. Standing at the top of the hill, Huma zipped up her jacket to keep herself warm in the cold, biting rain. She looked around her and […]