Category: SixPens

ComradeTales-10 “Javed bhai, did you hear that? The British are trying to dissect our mulk.” “Yes, Gopi. It has always been their policy. They were waiting for this. The Congress Read More

ComradeTales-09 Ketoki was excited as her older brother was coming home from Burma after 2 long years. Baba had gone to fetch him from the railway station. Her dearest friend Read More

ComradeTales-8     New York, 1994 Anjali was excited since morning as Varun had promised to take her for the show of 1942 – A love story, the latest Bollywood Read More

ComradeTales-07 “Gandhiji kaun?” 5-year-old little Indu, asked her father who was busy pasting flyers that had been handed over to him by the city press on the wall. Her father, Read More

ComradeTales-6 As Guru Rajan entered the class, a group of ten students rose to greet their beloved teacher. Everyone was cheerful on that bright sunny day except Guddu, a chirpy Read More

ComradeTales-5 “Simon, go back.” The streets reverberated with charged up people. The British had become so audacious that they were going ahead for constitutional reforms for India and did not Read More

ComradeTales-4 On a cold winter morning, in the sleepy town of Gorakhpur, Hussain was at his home waiting for his friend Lakhi, who was coming to meet him from Chauri Read More

ComradeTale-03 Tanveer was making her way through the dusty streets of Amritsar. She had made kulchas for her friends waiting for her in the Jaliawala Bagh. A meeting was organized Read More

ComradeTale-2 “Bimal Da! What do you mean by Swadeshi?” questioned the chirpy ten-year old Rupa, as she noticed Bimal Da hustle about in the house, picking up random stuff from Read More

ComradeTales-1 She looked at the postage stamp in her hand again. Baba had handed it over to her today. There he was, her great grandfather, ‘Mangal Pandey’ the freedom fighter. Read More

SixPens-07 ____________________________ “If his wife had believed him he wouldn’t have gotten into trouble. Only if he had paid heed to her warning. When she said, ‘Don’t go today, am Read More