Sapna’s Dreams

If someone ever mentions Fatehbad to you, do not bother looking for it on the map of India. Somewhere in Haryana, among soaring green trees, between one or two dried up canals and connected with broken puddled roads, you would find Sapna’s very own Fatehbad. Like children love slurping fruit jellies in the summer, like old men love snoring in the middle of reading a newspaper and like the young men love teasing those Chaudhary girls, Sapna loves her Fatehbad. It was 19 years ago that her father, Jaat Dharma Ram Singh had moved to this village. After the death of Sapna’s mother, Singh found it difficult to survive in the city of Ambala with Sapna and her two elder sisters.

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

After a week of unusually heavy snowing, it was a warm and comforting Sunday morning in Los Angeles. The sun shone graciously in the Hollywood Hills and the house was enveloped in yellow haze of warmth.
Weather was never a direct influence on Anne’s mood, rather nothing at all had any immediate impact on her every day temperament. Anybody who looked at her, would in no time get fond her and this was accredited to Anne’s eternally graceful smile which never parted ways with her.

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A Letter that could never be Delivered…

On my wedding night, my father placed his hand on my head, without looking into my eyes and said, “I will pray for your happiness always. Remember that your smile is my strength and every drop of tear in your eyes burns my heart.” I just smiled, looked up at him and said, “All my smiles bid me a goodbye the day I saw him walking away from our house, without even looking back to see me for the last time, walking away from my life forever.”

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That Incomplete yet Complete Lovestory!

Amidst the monotonous normalities rushing through my life, never did I expect a surprise as vibrant as you. Lost was I in the world of logics and practicalities when you stepped in bringing in the beauty of some senseless, illogical and utterly magical companionship. The vacuum that had vividly become a part of me was effortlessly being filled by the laughter and love you came with. The setting was so perfectly weaved. Astonishingly, a person as private as me, took no time to turn into an open book in front of you.It was as if the universe had conspired us to be what the world called ‘soulmates’.

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The Fairy Tale

Broken yet strong. Sad yet always smiling. Stern yet so soft. She was tremendously capable to hide her fears, her pain, her subtle wishes and her innocent desires in a face that always was glowing out of made up happiness and her eyes which always swelled of non existent excitements. She everyday woke up like a pillar of power keeping her soft little heart safe from the world which she knew would never accept.

Fighting a battle which had no aim, she ran around with her spirits high and a statue of confidence which the entire world admired. Yes for the world she was just a fair pretty woman with an outstanding energy, some infatuating bubbliness and some fine brains. But she craved to be discovered more than that. She craved to be read more than her face and her brains only.

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