A quick recap: Chapter One, Two, Three & Four. A few days after the Quidditch selection, Benny seemed better. Meera knew that she was a little mad at being rejected. But surprisingly enough, Benny still showed up at Quidditch practices to cheer her friends. Meera was a little worried if it helped Benny, but Benny…
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I was halfway through Haruki Murakami’s South of the Border, West of the Sun when a thought suddenly struck me. Murakami is a master storyteller and I have been awestruck by the scale of how he imagines great patterns in simple lives. His first person narrative is haunting. It feels all too real. But this…
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May be we’re like the season I’ve never seen spring meeting autumn, like the day never sees the dawn all we do in our alternate universes is quietly burn. Like summer and winter, when one comes you are bound to remember the other. May be we really are like the seasons fading away time and…
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Can’t recall the first chapter? Click here. Meera was skeptic as ever. It was tearing her apart. She didn’t want to go, but Zuck’s words ringed in her ears. Your country’s magic council wants you to study magic at Hogwarts. She didn’t know why she needed to believe someone who had appeared out of thin…
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When we think of hiding, camouflage and going underground would be the ideal option. You wouldn’t normally think about writing. Nah! we write to express, to communicate, to disseminate ideas. Could writing be a way of concealment then? Very unlikely, and yet very possible. The thought struck me when I came to know about a…
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‘Who will play first?’ the old lady asked. ‘The one who comes up with the highest number on the dice,’ the girl said. The old lady nodded in agreement. ‘Bring the board,’ she said. The little girl moved towards the corner of the room, dimly lit with spider webs at the edges. The rack was…
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The Wordcastle 