In a forgotten lane of Kolkata, where time lingers like incense in an old fire temple, a boy unearths a relic buried beneath silence, a century old gun that once whispered through the veins of India’s freedom struggle. Bandook Gali – Gun Lane is not just a story of a weapon, but of memory, legacy,…
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Mother and Bhola
The city kept no minutes of mercy. It recorded rainfall, elections, tram delays, the rising and falling prices of fish at Manicktala. It remembered riots and festivals and the names of new flyovers. But it kept no ledger for the small gestures that slipped through its fingers like water. The stray dog did not know…
Refused to Fade
This story stands complete on its own, but if you wish to start at the beginning, you may read the prequel, Ramkingkong, first: The lane had not changed. Or perhaps it had changed only in the way a battlefield heals, by covering its scars with ordinary life while never quite forgetting the violence that once lived…
The First Light
This story stands complete on its own, but if you wish to start at the beginning, you may read the prequel, The Last Click, first: There are photographs that capture a moment, and then there are photographs that wait. They wait in darkness, in drawers that smell of camphor and old paper, in forgotten corners…
Rooftop Ruffians: AUDIO STORY
Before mobile phones, video games, and the endless distractions of modern life, childhood in the 1980s had its own kingdom of adventure. In the old neighbourhoods of Kolkata, a gang of restless boys claimed the city’s rooftops as their playground. From daring leaps across terraces to secret missions under the blazing summer sun, these self-proclaimed…
Mudskippers: AUDIO STORY
On the muddy banks of the Ganges in North Kolkata, two mysterious twins are discovered by a humble idol maker from Kumartuli. Raised among clay, river tides, and the ancient craft of sculpting gods, the boys grow up with an uncanny bond to the water that first brought them into the world. But when a…
Fish n Rice: AUDIO STORY
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…
The Map Seller of College Street
There are streets in a city that merely carry traffic, and then there are streets that carry memory. College Street in Kolkata belongs to the latter. In the early mornings, before the buses begin their impatient honking and before the tram bell rings its metal warning, the street wakes slowly. Booksellers lift the tarpaulin sheets…
The Name on the Wall
The gas lamps hissed like impatient insects, their glass chimneys sweating in the heat. Backstage smelled of attar and dust, rose clinging to skin, chalk to cloth, old wood to everything. Someone had spilled rice water near the doorway; it had dried into a thin white crescent on the floor, a quiet moon that nobody…
The Shadow of Renko-ji
The temple does not face the street. It turns inward, as though whatever it guards is not meant to be seen in passing. Renko-ji stands quietly in Tokyo, its wooden bones darkened by years of incense and weather, its steps worn smooth by feet that have arrived carrying questions heavier than luggage. There is no…
Weekend Stories by Trishikh 