INDImag – Contemporary fiction | Motivational short stories | Social stories | Short story criticism

It was 2006 and I was craving bad ; craving for my holidays ever since my exams had commenced . Without the slightest...  [ Read ] »

From the vantage point one could see the whole area. The light green fields, the dark green grove of trees, the...  [ Read ] »

The one-horse town of Chikkulli in South India had nothing much to speak for itself. Dusty lanes and streets...  [ Read ] »

The Head of State Security put the report down with a grunt. “Well?” the Spy asked. “It’s...  [ Read ] »

37 degrees. Dry heat. The kind of heat that can start forest fires. It was 4:30pm. I squinted at the sun – a blazing...  [ Read ] »

Rainy day on a bus stand, waiting to get back home and then suddenly out of nowhere she came along...  [ Read ] »

There was a madness in the crowd… ‘Kill him! Kill him!’ My heart cringed. ‘No, please! Don’t!...  [ Read ] »

Assigned to Becky Quinn. That was the status of my ticket that Tuesday morning.  That really did not sound good at all!...  [ Read ] »

It was after a booze of mahuli and sitting beside the ring and watching the cockfight that this singular idea struck...  [ Read ] »

The first time she spoke a word, it didn’t even occur to me to record it or write it down. Her first word could...  [ Read ] »

The Tiny Weed stood clinging precariously to the barren rocks. Its leaves were carefully painted a beautiful green...  [ Read ] »

Yesterday I was seeing an Indian movie made over half a century ago ‘Musafir’. It was the times...  [ Read ] »

On a moonlit summer night plunged into darkness by a power cut, our family of 5 sat for a ‘candle light’...  [ Read ] »

Rahul was anxiously drumming on the dinner table of some hotel. His irritated friends asked him to stop for the umpteenth...  [ Read ] »

2001 in Nashville, TN, USA. Autumn was in the air – or so the Tennessee folks proclaimed wisely. I ground...  [ Read ] »

They say “Some people are born great, some people become great, some people have greatness thrust...  [ Read ] »

In Cold Blood Loneliness. Solitariness. Desolation. The thesaurus can cough up many more synonyms for you if you...  [ Read ] »

The other day I came across a mail I received about the Tao of Forgiveness. While going...  [ Read ] »

‘Zebra Crossing’, the latest craze amongst Addis Ababa’s Page 3 set was crowded. The music was ‘abasha’ and the...  [ Read ] »