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Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Aryan would wait for his Summer vacations to visit his grandma at Dhimbam-which is a delight for nature lovers and adventurers. Inhabited by Tribes, misty, pristine, and squeaky-clean rivers, and streams, filled with positivity and tranquillity. The drive to Dhimbam is one of the most enjoyable, hair-raising experiences you will ever have. A snakelike road takes you through 27 hairpin bends concealed within majestic green mountains, Rich wildlife, bird spotting, never-ending beauty, silver waterfalls, and soulful hikes. The Village of Dhimbam, is hidden away in the forests and remains a secret, untouched by tourism, urbanization, and digitalization, at the tip of the country, hardly connected with tr...

Padma and Lakshmi have been friends from their school days, both shared the same birthday and they were very close friends, that people call them “Padma-Lakshmi”, frequently   people have got confused that, it may be the name of one person. They have been in school together from Grade two, Padma’s both the parents were doctors, with a busy and unpredictable schedule managing and taking care of Padma at home with the help of a Maid had become difficult, so they   decided to join her in a hostel. Lakshmi on the other hand was a daughter of a businessman and had a stepmother, and she was not keen on taking care of Lakshmi with her kids, so she was admitted in a hostel by her father, they were from Mumbai. Padma and Lakshmi struck a beautiful cod from the day one itself, They both shared almost everything among themselves, when Christmas vacation came, All children went back to their houses, Padma’s parents   came to take her home, but Lakshmi’s father had not come yet ...

It has been more than a decade that Priya is married to Rajesh, but still, the mention of her mother in laws name brings in a mix feeling Happy, scared, anxious, angry, nervous, irritated and any other feeling you can think about. Srinivas and Lakshmi had an elder daughter Sreeja and a son Rajesh, Sreeja was married to a doctor and had migrated to the USA long back, she would visit them once in three years, stay in her in-law's house, visit them for a week and would leave, Her interference in the family was minimal. She would call her parents once in a week and speak to all of them. Rajesh was a software Engineer, Priya also has finished her MS. but was on a sabbatical after marriage, she wanted to get used to the new life before moving on to a professional career, which she had discussed with Rajesh before marriage and moreover she had moved from a different city to Hyderabad. Initially, Lakshmi is happy to see her son married. But after a while, insecurity creeps in. She is...

Rebeca was considered to be a tough lady, never seen as a usual lady next door; She was a single mother from a small town. As usual as a single mother, she went through a lot of difficult situations. As long as her parents were around, she had some moral support, but after she lost them it was a lonely struggle. The first and probably the most difficult part of being a single mom was that people judged her without even trying to figure out, how She got into this situation. She found out too late that She could have fallen for a frog, who pretended to be prince charming and hence decided to go separate ways with her husband. Aside from the fact that she was the one working to bring food to the table, she also has to do all the house chores after work, because all her lazy husband ever did was eat and sleep all day, besides physical abuse and alcoholism. Personally, for her, the most difficult part was to explain it to her children when they asked “why other kids’ dads are with the...

Few days before lockdown, I was having a strong intuition that this lockdown will not hold good to a few days, but  might extend to months, of a long stay at home, and the idea of being confined to a small compound in Hyderabad with soaring temperatures as the days progressed was not going well.  So I decided to drive down to my farm, It was a long journey of 1000+Kms from Hyderabad to Wayanad with my family and Dogs and with a list of instructions to travel from parents. One of the instructions were not to eat your meal from any of the restaurants, so we had to make arrangements of food not only for us but for our three pets traveling with us. What an experience it was, I was so used to these long drives, stopping every now and then, experiencing local flavor at a new restaurant on the way, but sitting under the tree to have our meals and walking the pets on the highway, couldn’t have even thought about it at a normal time. Tired after the long travel, I woke up to ...