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The metro slowed with a tired sigh, its carriages clattering into the station. Leila leaned her head against the glass, watching her own reflection dissolve into the blur of strangers on the platform. Everyone seemed to have a purpose—earphones in place, bags tucked close, screens glowing like fireflies. She alone felt adrift, as though she …... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
Cities are sly creatures, and none more so than Istanbul, which has learned over millennia to hide its true face behind a dozen masks: the Roman, the Byzantine, the Ottoman, the Republican, the tourist-brochure city and the smoky-backstreet city, the city of call to prayer and of cocktails, the city that flirts across continents like … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
There are days, Mira thinks, that wear another woman’s perfume. They slip over your shoulders like a borrowed shawl—soft, unfamiliar, faintly fragrant with decisions you didn’t make. This one arrives at the end of the rains, when the pavements of Connaught Place are stitched with banyan leaves, rainwater cupping small skies in every pothole. Even &... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
Aria lived inside noise. The kind of noise that never shuts off: Metro announcements, endless reels playing from strangers’ phones, the drone of traffic outside her window, the blue light that seeped into her eyes until 2 a.m. Her life wasn’t hard by definition. She had a job, rent covered, weekends at cafés, friends to … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
On the terrace of her cantonment home, Ayesha often waited for the bugle to fade into silence. The parade ground would empty, the dust would settle, and she would find herself alone with the horizon. It was in those moments that she remembered what her grandmother used to say: “Every footstep is dhikr if taken … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
In the middle of the city stood a peculiar factory. It did not make cloth, or sugar, or steel. It manufactured benchmarks. Every morning, the factory roared alive and out came sheets of paper: “50 calls today!”, “10% growth this quarter!”, “Target not met — penalty due.” The air was thick with ink and anxiety. … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
They called him the Paper Prince of Patna, though the moniker had outgrown its flattery and hardened into a kind of reproach, whispered by rivals and journalists alike. His mills stood like fortresses by the Ganga, their chimneys breathing smoke that mixed with the river mist at dawn. In the counting houses of Calcutta and … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
The stage lights were blinding, the auditorium vast. Riya adjusted the sitar on her lap. Its familiar weight should have steadied her, but tonight, it pressed heavier than usual. The audience was silent — waiting, watching. Her palms were damp. Her throat dry. Fear, old and stubborn, sat in her chest. She closed her eyes, … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
In contemporary Indian cities, the café has become what the addas of Calcutta once were, or the press clubs of Delhi in the 1960s: places where ideas take tentative shape, where ambition rubs shoulders with uncertainty. It was in such a café—wedged between a bookstore and an art shop in South Delhi—that Mira, a young … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
The machines never stopped. A low, metallic growl ran through the factory, day and night. The walls were blackened with grease, the air thick with the smell of hot iron and oil. Ravi stood at his station, his palms calloused from years of tightening the same bolts, his body swaying unconsciously to the rhythm of … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
Arjun had been waiting weeks for news of the promotion. Every time the HR sent out an email marked All Staff, his heart jumped. When it finally came, he saw his colleague Mehul’s name instead. Arjun shut the laptop gently, but inside, something twisted. That evening, he went to buy vegetables. The sabziwala, a thin … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
When Aarushi graduated, she had a notebook filled with plans. She had mapped out the next ten years: jobs, cities, even the age at which she thought she should “settle down.” Life, she believed, was a project plan waiting for execution. But then her first job ended abruptly when the company shut down. She was … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
She was an analyst in a glass building, the kind who could read numbers the way others read faces.Her intellect was her armor — spreadsheets, forecasts, debates.People called her brilliant, unstoppable, a storm with heels clicking across marble floors. Yet every tool of brilliance became a blade against her.→ The phone that connected her also ̷... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
He carried no marks on his forehead, wore no special robes, and claimed no symbols for himself. The only thing he kept was a tasbih, tucked quietly in his pocket. Not for display. Not as a badge of belonging. But as a reminder. At the tea stall, he always waited for the vendor to finish … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
There was a girl I knew in Lahore.Not intimately, but well enough to remember her laugh in contrast to the quiet of her father’s study. That house, old but orderly, stood somewhere between Gulberg and memory — one of those colonial homes where time stalls at four in the afternoon and even the shadows smell … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
Bayazid was a backend engineer at a mid-sized AI startup in Berlin. He was known to be brilliant — not loud, not charismatic, but the kind of quiet genius who solved memory leak issues at 3 a.m. and left no trace except a passing Git commit that read: “temporary illusion resolved.” He wore the same … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
Eliane Mehra lived on the 17th floor of a high-rise in Mumbai—a city that never truly slept, only paused to exhale between honks, power cuts, and monsoon rain. Her flat was minimalist, curated in quiet earth tones, with trailing plants by the windows and books stacked unevenly near the TV she never turned on. She … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
Eliam Reyes had once believed in the power of words. He’d armed himself with books, sharpened his mind like a blade, and cut through arguments in lecture halls that echoed with applause and envy. Students quoted him, colleagues debated him, critics wrote against him with respect. But inside—deep inside—something had always ached. A silent room R... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
They called her karamjali before she knew what it meant. At first, it was a word flung casually, like water to shoo a crow. Her aunt said it the day the rice burned in the pot and smoke curled into the kitchen like a curse finding its way home. “Karamjali,” the woman snapped, not even … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
In the old quarters of Delhi—where the walls lean close like old gossiping men, and the air forever smells of rosewater, sweat, and centuries—there lived a mad Sufi. He was a threadbare shadow who drifted through the narrow, mystical alleys of Nizamuddin Auliya’s dargah, clutching at dreams heavier than coin, speaking to the saints as …... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
In the dim silence of an old haveli, where the arches remembered more than the people did, Bibi Zainab sat cross-legged on a prayer mat woven by her grandmother. The world outside had long forgotten Ashura — but within her, the desert of Karbala rose anew with each breath. She did not speak. She did … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
Not all quiet is empty. Some of it is memory warming its hands. The clock on the wall had struck six with a sleepy, apologetic chime. Outside, the gulmohar leaves rustled like gossiping aunties. A distant two-wheeler coughed its way up the lane. Anil Paranjpe was in his usual chair by the window, fingers around … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
It began with a thought: “I miss you.” But she didn’t know who. Just a quiet ache, persistent like the smell of wet cement after the first monsoon rain. In Mumbai, longing wasn’t special. Everyone missed something: a lost lover, a home left behind, a dream delayed by the local train. But hers felt older. … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
In the old quarter of Lahore, where bougainvillea fell in violet clusters from the stone walls, and azan echoed like honey over the rooftops at dusk, she found her life—simple, fragrant, slow, and complete. Her name was Anisa. A schoolteacher from Islamabad, she had once lived in the quicksilver rhythm of modernity—tight schedules, sleek offices, &... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
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She arrived as the morning light brushed softly against the waters of Harmandir Sahib, where the gold glowed like it remembered heaven. No one noticed her enter. She simply appeared — seated on the marble floor, near the edge of the sacred sarovar. A thin woman wrapped in a faded shawl, the color of dried … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
The scent of cardamom coffee floated through the alleyways of Old Jabal Street, winding its way around stone homes, olive trees, and sun-faded shutters. The sky was a canvas of cloudless blue, and the town of Ain Al-Safa was awake early—dressed in white, laughter echoing between homes. It was Eid morning, and twelve-year-old Mariam sat … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
There is a woman. She walks barefoot through a palace that has forgotten how to breathe. The sandstone walls hold their breath as she passes, as if even the architecture knows she is no longer meant to belong here, not fully. Her name is Amara Devi, and once she was spoken of in the same … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
Each morning, before the sky turned blue, Zoya wrapped herself in a soft white shawl and climbed the ancient steps of the dargah. The air was still, cool with dew, and the only sound was the faint rustle of her steps on stone. She never spoke—not just because she could not, but because words had … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
Every Thursday evening, just after the sun dipped behind the skyline of Delhi, Noor would shut her laptop, silence her notifications, and sit by the window with a cup of kahwa and a skein of indigo thread. It wasn’t much—just a needle, a length of soft muslin, and the quiet hush between her breath and … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
In a small flat overlooking a neem tree, lived a woman who had stopped waiting for something to happen. No promotion. No apology. No grand revelation. Each morning, she stirred her tea not for the caffeine, but for the ceremony of it. She watered her plants like they were old friends. She looked out the … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
Some strength is so ordinary, it becomes invisible. Until someone sits long enough to see it. Anil Paranjpe had taken his usual seat on the bench at the corner of Deshmukh Colony, right next to the old peepal tree. It was late afternoon — not quite evening, not quite hot anymore. The shadows had grown … ... mehr auf sumitajetley.wordpress.com
