Wrote this one for the Deccan Herald contest. After reading the winning entry, I realised I had no chance of even getting shortlisted, looking as they were for another Arundhati Roy and co., The other winning entry was better, definitely. You can find my entry here. Also, one realises that they were looking for really short stories. My only encounter with this genre was The Interpreter of Maladies, and apparently this was not the metric DH used.
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Reflections on everything 
Both entries seem to be the same, isnt it ?
eeks!! changing one link.
forgotten passwd and outside home… will update. you can go to deccanherald and check out todays articulations ….
Just read your story. Beautiful one at that. You will make a nice author one day. I implore you to write a how-to on “How to improve the writing skills”, for the n00bs.
Great astounding work!
Thanks :D Since I don’t really analyse my writing, and writing styles are usually borrowed and modified, i guess read a lot and write a lot would be best advice :)
link updated.
Isn’t the theme of life and happiness is too big to be pictured well in a short story? Anyways certain things were really good like “He thought that an intellectual life was what was ultimately important,
a life expounded by the great thinkers over the ages as being the way to
self-realisation, which was what he should want. However, like we know
so well by know, all he wanted was to be happy. To enjoy sunsets, not to
intellectualize them, to enjoy life without philosophising about its Aesthetics.
Intellectualism had inadvertantly put more obstacles in the way than had
removed,” or “Father, after spending most of the ten years in self-doubt, (which was
eventually cleared by a couple of porn videos)” .But I think u were Reviews were really better than this ;)..Probably sociology,economics,ITC have occupied a lot of space!!
like the protagonist realises at the end, one really cannot write about life and happiness :) amount of pages devoted to the topic is immaterial. If it has brought anyone any entertainment, it has served its purpose, since that was all it was intended to do :D
Reviews, well, more of analysis than creativity .. mebbe i analyse better than i create ;)
My entry here link does not seem to work
“My entry here” link does not seem to work
eeks!! will try to update. I blame my ‘friend’ for pulling down the site on which this was hosted.
done… let me know if it is working
Yeah..it works
Thanks