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Recession Blues

The below text is purely a work of my imagination, any reference to any person living or dead is puerly co-incidential ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Read from the bottom of the mail chain ————————– —–Original Message—– From: postmaster@localhost [mailto:postmaster@localhost] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12:19 PM To: Ashrafi,Gulam M Subject: Delivery Final Failure Notice Can not deliver the [...]

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Red Herring

Red Herring

Rahul was anxiously drumming on the dinner table of some hotel. His irritated friends asked him to stop the umpteenth time. Rahul looked at the black screen of his cell phone. No SMS or call yet from her. Whatever is taking so long.

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Harbinger of Better Times

Harbinger of Better Times

There was not a single drop of water to drink at the house. Mangamma went to the nearby street tap and turned it open. As before, it hissed making empty sound. The water supply had turned erratic since a few months. Earlier, they would get some water once in 3 or 4 days, slowly it became worse and now they got water once in almost a month.

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