A young boy and his mother are mesmerised by the new Ambassador their neighbour has purchased. Set at a time when cars were still an unaffordable luxury for many, Himangshu’s story recounts the average hypocritical Indian.
Selvi lives in a slum and works as a cleaner in a posh-looking construction company. Preeti Madhusudhan captures a day in the life of Selvi in a story that throws light on the dark corners of a booming India, where shiny, glass buildings stand in sharp contrast to heart-wrenching poverty. A work of fiction that brings two contradictory shades of Indianness to the fore.
Shantamma, the house help, dreams of a good Diwali bonus from the houses that she works at, and through a stroke of serendipity, she gets extra lucky this year.
On two separate visits to Tenali in Andhra Pradesh, a young man comes face-to-face with inconvenient truths that still define India. Pravin Vemuri tells the story.
The title says it all! Hari Ravikumar writes a piece laced with humour and a fine dose of South Indian classical music.
An elderly gentleman feels alive when he listens to his late wife’s music recordings and reminisces about their past. Sudha Nair tells the story of how music fills the solitude in his life – no matter the distractions that life throws.
Almost every night, a woman dreams that she is playing the violin. A dream that haunts her and teases her. Anupama Krishnakumar tells the story of the woman’s journey with her violin.
A bunch of poppies are uprooted from a garden and are put through an arduous journey in which they experience the harshness of the big bad world in many ways. Ajay Patri tells their story and gives the poppies a voice.
A little girl and her grandmother deal with a rare problem that occupies their days, thoughts and dreams. Nandagopal T tells the story of how they try to cope with it.