Kadhaipomaa with Kiranya

"Kabuliwala" is a timeless Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore that explores the themes of empathy, loss, and the power of human connection. The story follows the relationship between a young girl named Mini and a Kabuliwala, a traveling trader from Afghanistan. Despite their differences in culture and background, Mini and the Kabuliwala form a deep bond based on their mutual love a...

The story revolves around the protagonist and his little friends whose friendship is built on pure love. Sarangarajan’s desperacy for his friend’s visit to his home and the way his emotions are weaved is remarkable!

Ashokamitran aka Jagadisa Thyagarajan was an Indian writer and regarded as one of the most influential figures in post-independent Tamil literature. His works are characterized by simplicity and clarity of thought and drew from his professional and personal experiences.

The story of a Scientist's love with a Spy.

Prabanchan aka S.Vaidyalingam was a renowned writer and Sahitya Academy awardee. The story revolves around two protagonists, Krishnamoorthi and Manonmani. Moorthi meets Mani at an exhibition in Pondicherry and recalls the nostalgic childhood days. Mani was married off to her drunkard cousin who is now admitted at a hospital in a critical condition. Moorthi gets to know how Mani’s life has reached...

Kate Chopin’s The Story of an hour is about Louise Mallard, a woman in a traditional Victorian marriage, who receives the news that her husband was killed in an accident. After her grief subsides, she begins to see opportunity and freedom in her future. The main theme is the importance of the independence of women and having a voice in their own world. This sort of independence went contrary to so...

Peter story by writer Sujatha revolves around the normal life happenings of three friends in an engineering college. Peter never cared to enter the rat-race and enjoys life to the fullest. Everyone believed that Peter is going to turnout as an absolute failure as he takes life easy peasy. Being debarred from engineering, he completes the degree in 8 years and joins an organisation as a probationer...

Sujatha aka Rangarajan was one of the great Tamil writers. He is known in some quarters as a science fiction writer – he was probably the first writer to write science fiction in Tamil – but he wrote in nearly every genre. The core of this story describes how we all judge and measure each other by our own standards.

The Postmaster” is one of Tagore’s bleaker stories, spun around two immensely lonely characters whose only chance to end their loneliness is squandered. While as readers we may yearn for the happy ending where the Postmaster returns to the village to whisk Ratan away, Tagore instead uses these characters to lay out a parable about interpersonal relationships in developing modernity under British i...

Thi. Janakiraman, or Thi Jaa, as he was fondly known, is instantly recognisable to more than one generation of Tamil readers as the author of subversive novels such as Mohamul and wrote over 150 short stories. Thi Jaa’s short stories are keen, deft slices of life. The relationships portrayed in his stories are endless tangles in a rapidly changing world, seeking particularly to understand the inne...

The author describes how Olga has always been in love with someone—and that she inspires mutual affection from most of the people she meets. Olga's friends will exclaim in the middle of conversation "Oh, you darling!" as a way of conveying their fondness for her. It is appropriate that this poignant story has a pitiable yet ludicrous protagonist. While Olga is endearingly sweet with her inability...

The Darling by Anton Chekhov follows the life of Olenka referred to as "The Darling."

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This short story is all about a banker and a young man who make a bet with each other based on capital punishment and whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. An ironic twist responds to this exploration of the value of a human life with an unexpected result.

Ku. Azhagirisamy's short stories have an elegant style, perfect picturisation, the tragic moment that intervenes them, the floating humour and the fragrance of the village soil. A subtle affection for children weaves throughout his narrative. In this story, Thaayamma, a poor mother, embraces a destitute boy with her priceless love in the throes of poverty.

Lord Shiva descends from the heavens to spend a day with Kandasamy Pillai in Madras in this short story by Pudhumaippittan, who is considered to be the most prominent Tamil short story writer. Pudhumaippittan often reinterpreted mythological themes in his stories. But the gods in his stories did not always find life with the mortals easy and comfortable.

Sabesan’s coffee business grew apace and showed a great profit after Subbu Kutti joined him as a clerk. Subbu Kutti brought something from his house in a small tin and mixed it with the coffee seeds while they were being grounded. Sabesan tried to find out the secret, but Subbu Kutti’s mother had extorted a vow from him that he would not tell no one, not even Sabesan. What was the secret ingredien...

The story tells about a father and his great despair for his dead son. Iona, the father, is a Russian sleigh driver who desperately tried to share his grief with strangers. Iona wanted someone to listen to him, to somehow feel his grief, in order for him to feel better. This reading shows the harshness of human nature.

This is a comedic short story by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. First published in 1883, it involves Ivan Dmitrievich Cherviakov, a clerk who accidentally sneezes at an important general Brizzhalov. Though the general nearly instantly forgives him, Ivan panics and is unable to recover from the mistake, whose psychological weight ultimately becomes fatal. Like many of Chekhov’s works, “The Death...

Anton Chekhov's "The Lottery Ticket" is about a middle-class man named Ivan, who reads the paper and tells his wife that the first few numbers of the winning lottery number are the same as her lottery ticket. Excited, they each fantasize about how they would spend the money, but their thoughts soon shift and become resentful, as each imagines how the winnings will negatively change their spouse.