by Bhavani Sundaram | Aug 14, 2025 | Short Stories
THE COCKTAIL GANG One day five friends met at a bar in Goa, an old haunt actually called “Pedro’s Bar”, it had been their favourite since their college days and they were known as the “Cocktail Gang”. It had been almost 30 years and this reunion was fixed once a year...
by Bhavani Sundaram | Aug 14, 2025 | Short Stories
Every season is a fun season in Goa but for me I love being there in the monsoons, the smell of wet earth is intoxicating, watching the rain fall all around you is exciting, going to the beach and seeing the waves competing with each other is a challenge...
by Bhavani Sundaram | Aug 14, 2025 | Articles
Are we finally seeing the rapid decline of the old fashioned institution of Marriage which is being replaced slowly but surely with more couples opting for a Live-in Relationship, especially after the Supreme Court verdict on November 2013 saying...
by Bhavani Sundaram | Aug 14, 2025 | Short Stories
It was a week after the funeral. She had buried her hard-working accountant husband, who had painstakingly worked from morn till sundown, risen from clerk to bank manager, sent two children to college and jobs abroad with the income, and given her a comfortable life...
by Bhavani Sundaram | Aug 14, 2025 | Articles
The other day, I happened to pass by a temple near my society, it was the first day of Navratri and there was a big crowd gathered for the aarti. I also joined the crowd and waited for my turn to pay my obsequies to the Lord. As I was waiting for my turn, I...