What is the secret of great friendship? What prompts one to become so fond of another is a question I could never find answer for, could never understand. *** I saunter along the river, a tributary of the river Trinity,…
Neela sat down with her laptop to surf the net for Telugu stories and poems. Her father had given it to her as she had started Computer Science classes in college the previous year. Her mother never liked it though.…
Some people can memorize the multiplication tables effortlessly. It’s as if the wind has unraveled the web in one’s mind and laid it out neatly. As a child, I never got the math right; it used to scare me like…
We read stories—Russian, Chinese, Japanese, African—and learn about their culture. Some stories tell us we are not different. Their customs, habits, perceptions, social consciousness, family values and ethics appear to be so close to ours. They cry in the same…
There was an island on the ocean in a far-flung corner. It was located in a remote area. A few people from an advanced country set out on their ships to find it. Even after an intensive search, they could…
Raamakumaree mee illa undaa? Ratnakumaaree mee illa undaa? Peruperulatalli mee illa undaa? Peddappa dorasaani mee iLLa unddaa? Iis Ratnakumaree in your home? My princess of many titles is she in your home? The big father’s princess is she in your…
Murthy was shocked as he recollected the old story of the fish that did not dry up in the sun[1]. He noticed a bizarre similarity between the reasons –the one behind the fish not drying up and the way the…
It was a moment when the two bodies rose and soared in the vast expanse of the skies, soaked in the waterfalls and experienced the ultimate bliss totally unaware of the rest of the world; it was a moment the…
“Headmaster expired”. Captain Rao read the telegram. He stood still for a while, preoccupied. His wife looked at him with knitted eyebrows. She bent forward to read the telegram in his hand. “Who is this headmaster?” “Our headmaster.” She…
By Nidadavolu Malathi. “The deeyivoo (District Educational Officer) saar is coming.” The school peon Venkanna usually arrives at the headmaster’s house at six in the morning. That day he woke up at midnight and started getting ready because the “deeyivoo…