Author: Payel Roy

A creative person with critical thinking ability and versatility. I am attentive, dedicated, punctual, enthusiastic and a fast learner. I have computer skills. I have done bachelors in Comparative Literature and pursuing my masters presently and this has led to the broadening of my thought pattern.
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Jan 25

The Fire

Life is deceptive. People are deceptive.   The house had caught fire. The people in it were burning. Their hearts were burning.  The smoke created circles in the sky. The blue sky turned grey. Only Liza and her elder brother Mathew could be rescued. They had not suffered major physical burns but their hearts have…

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Jan 24

Homecoming

Time slips away from our hands talking with it our beloved childhood and childhood memories.   Kabir has been away for a decade from his beloved village to study in the city school. At the age of ten his father sent him away to his aunt’s house to study in the city school. Kabir had…

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Situations are tough but we should never give up. When all the doors seem locked a window at least would be found open.   My first child was a son born to me in 2012. The year that was supposedly the end was my beginning. I have nourished him with my own blood and milk.…

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Life has beautiful surprises in store for all of us. Just like the rainbow follows the rain, the dark clouds of sadness will also fade away.   He looked at her. She was sitting in front of the mirror and combing her hair. From shoulder to her hips her body was curved in a manner…

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Jan 10

The Arrival

Even death cannot separate our loved ones from us.   It was the time when British came to Murshidabad for the first time. Sairindri devi lived with her family in Murshidabad. She was around 35 or 36 years old. She had three sons. The older two went to school but the little one stayed at…

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Sometimes we love someone so much that we fail to correct them. Mr and Mrs Dasgupta had three children- Shalini, Sharmila and Sayan. Mr and Mrs Dasgupta belonged to the old school. They did not look at all their children equally. Sayan was given all new toys, new books and ample love. Whereas, Shalini and…

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Not all we assume are our dear friends some are just measuring us to eat. Maitreyi was her parent’s only child. She had been brought up with a lot of care and affection. Her parents had named her on the name of the learned woman of ancient India, Maitreyi. Since childhood, Maitreyi had been a…

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Dec 29

Remorse

Sharada, a regular girl is reconsidering the decisions she had taken earlier in life to get a perfect life, for her life does not seem perfect to her now rather it suffocates her.   Sharada had chosen the career of an Event Manager. She was great at it; due to her marriage she took a…

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Kindness is never futile. It always pays back sooner or later.   Balaram Babu could only get married because he was a Brahmin. His father Dayaram Banerjee was a business man and flourished as well until his friend Chuni Lal had him addicted to playing cards. Dayaram had lost all his money, his wife’s jewellery…

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This story is about the helplessness of women during the partition. How women faced violence not only in the hands of men of other religious group but also within the family. The family was only protective towards its ‘honour’ and not towards its women. I have not named Meekakshi’s mother purposely to show that her…