A frantic morning. A superstitious mind. And a plate of fish and rice that was never meant for him. Fish n Rice follows Bipin Bihari Choudharee, a ritual-loving, fish-obsessed Bengali gentleman whose perfectly predictable life unravels on a day when everything seems cosmically misaligned. After a series of absurd mishaps at the bustling Maniktala fish…
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Masala Tea
As the clock struck four in the twilight hours every morning, as the slumbering postcolonial Indian city of Kolkata slowly woke up to face another day, Shibnath Sammadar or SS would get busy opening his 150-year-old tea-shanty. Located diagonally opposite the main gate of Scottish Church College, on the north-eastern wall corner of the Hedua…
Midnight Swimmers
On the eve of Christmas in 1892, a young monk from Kolkata jumped into the shark-infested waters of the Indian Ocean off the shores of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu at the southernmost tip of the Indian peninsula. He swam across to a rock perched in the middle of the rough waters, but what did he…
Weekend Stories by Trishikh 