Theme 60 - Friendship

We haven't talked since the day I denied his kiss. Little does he know of how I'm battling against myself, holding the urge to kiss him. I never thought it would turn up this way. Could this really be more than friendship?
- Jaya Kataria


I want to be red.
Oh! You are so beautiful as white. Why do you want to become red?
No, I want to be red. If our friendship is true, then make me red.
Okay!
A parrot cut himself with thrones and made that white rose, red.
- Vishal Lokhande


Girl: I want a boyfriend. Find one. You know the type.
Boy: Oh, the one who would be absolutely mad. His screw should be little "dheela". Smart. Dashing. And most important, he should never hurt you. The most loving person you deserve.
Girl: It's exactly you my friend. But I want a boyfriend. Find. Haha!
- Sanchi Bahrani


"Please don't go na... I'd be left so alone here..", she frowned to her bestie.
"I AM going to be all lonely in that new country babe & I want you there this time next year! Bestest luck for GRE… Crack it & you know what.. I'm going to miss you like hell… Love you.."
- Apoorva Ranka


First day of class when she got late and missed the lecture, Maira went to her and shared her notes. Since then, their friendship tied a great bond.
- Khyati Jain


They high-fived! They laughed hysterically; shared dark secrets! He gossiped about sexy girls, she went all gaga over hot boys! They imagined to wake up together, went to dates, slept in each other’s arms! They were far, yet so close. Relationship couldn't define them; they were best friends, and in love!
- Osheen Shrivastav


I shared a strange friendship with him. I knew every corner of his home, every lane of his city.
He mentioned them in detail. In fact, we knew about each others’ every life story.
But, he was a friend nobody in my world knew about.
I guess, pen friends are like that.
- Priyanka Dharamsi

Theme 59 - Game

She played all kinds of games just to keep him close.
- Khyati Jain


Strangers. Acquaintances. Friends. Best friends. Special place. Love. Lifelong swears. Addiction. Night calls. Long chats. Small fights. Teasing. Laughing loud. Walk in rains. Roasted corns. Long drives. Everything was appearing as if it was a fairy tale...
Actually a fake tale, a planned game & I was a toy who played his part.
- Shashank Mehta


"I think I love you." she said.
"I always have." he said.
His phone rang and he got up to take the call.
“Is it done?” a voice came.
He turned back to see her. She was beautiful. Her eyes, something worth falling for.
“Yes. She’s trapped.” he sighed.
After all, it was a game.
- Sonal Joshi


“When I see Sachin playing on the field, I also desire to become like him but my family will not let me do so".
These were the words written by me in my childhood diary. And today is the day when several others watching me playing, desire to become like me.
- Swati Bhandari


When Dr. Priya came back after operating on Mr. Sharma she went down the memory lane and thought of her childhood days when she used to play doctor­doctor with her father and today she had to actually operate on her father. This is the game of life...
- Divneet Walia


A child was innocently playing with clay and sand.
Mother: What's up?"
Son: I'm mixing everything.
Mother: If you mix water, it will turn out into cement.
Son: Then let's just put all the people in water. They will be stuck and would stop fighting.
And mother actualized "love" is the water to dissolve hatred.
- Sanchi Bahrani


My daughter, laughing, walked to her dad, "Dad, mummy just told me you met her playing UNO online. Is it true?"
He came looking for me, locked our hands together and said, "Yes, your mom is right." he said, proudly.
She was dumbstruck, completely amazed & said "Mummy, papa you guys rock yaar, I love you."
- Rashmeet Kaur Bedi


There is a plot in every mind, she knew that. Games which everyone wants to win, without playing, at any cost. She was queen of mind games, fearless, manipulative, a diplomat; she always got what she desired. But this chase was different; she saw her first defeat in his eyes, in his happiness.
- Osheen Shrivastav


खेल मेरा अजीब, सबके मन को भाए
लोगो के इशारों पर जब जीवन जीया जाए
संसार की नित-रीत हैरान गजब है,
हम कठपुतलियों को इंसान और इंसानो को खुदा नचाए
गुरूर मत करो अपनी मुस्कान पर इतना
हमारा खेल ही तुम्हारे लिए बहारे लाए |
- Aishwarya Rai

Theme 58 - One

Something interrupted his sleep. He suddenly jumped out of the bed, and rushed towards the adjoining compartment. A loud knock was heard. She opened the door with swolen eyes. "How dare you cry without me!", he yelled, and held her tight. That was the moment they knew, there was ONE soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Tanya Jain


They asked him about his mother.

He replied,"Like natural numbers start with one, so did my life because of her. When I divide or multiply myself with her, she keeps me the same. When I add her up in me, I rise and when I leave her, I fall. She is my number one."
- Sonal Joshi

I want to love her. She‘s the one for me.
Think like a player and play the game.
No playing games man, it’s only one thing: Feeling.
You have to choose one always.
Why do we get in such a situation always?

Heart and mind convincing a guy to take decision from their point of view.
- Vishal Lokhande


When I stepped out of the supermarket I saw a lady walking ahead of me drop an envelope, I picked it up and found an address written on it. I searched for that place and was surprisingly happy to see my school friend receiving it. That one envelope took me to my old friend.
- Divneet Kaur Walia


Through highs and lows, we stood still. Supported each other’s every dream.
First moved cities. Then, moved homes.
We clipped the distances, one by one. Came closer with every turn.
We were just the best of friends.
But, that night, we crossed that one line too.
- Priyanka Dharamsi

I have always disliked my dad for some of his behaviors, one day after his death I was screaming at my cook as she hadn't made lunch on time when my brother came outside the room and said, "You are behaving so like dad!"
Suddenly, I realized something, and I didn't dislike him anymore.
- Disha Joshi


"You're the ONLY ONE who makes me feel special. I can’t imagine my world without you.
Love you ... XOXO"
*send*
*mobile beeps*
*Message delivered to all 5 recipients*
Rimjhim was horrified for the whole night until the 5th recipient, her father, texted back in the morning.
"Love you too beta.."
- Lokesh Dugar


He took a step closer and said, “I need you, not commitment. I crave for you."
"I crave for your commitment. “
She sighed and walked away. Their calculations never tallied. He always saw two and she totaled one.
- Priyanka Agrawal


New city, first day of college… Already running late, he picked his bag rushing out of the P.G.'s door.
-Something missing-
His hand slipped inside the shirt's pocket.
It was that one rupee coin his mom placed in his pocket every morning before school.
- Apoorva Ranka


He had got that one chance he had been waiting for, a passport of talent and a ticket to his dreams. Long distance, no relatives, no love, no friendship, just him and his work. This was the price he paid for that one chance, to live with himself all his life.
- Jaya Kataria


Two hands. Two hearts. Two Minds. Two Bodies. One Soul.
- Osheen Shrivastava


Depth of his eyes didn't allow my eyes to move.
Holding my waist with his hands, he came closer. I could sense unique warmth this time.
Silence around was loud enough to tell, he owns me.
He, then, kissed me & touched my soul. And we became one.
- Rashmeet Kaur Bedi

एक अर्से बाद इन जलती आँखों को तसल्ली मिली थी… तसव्वुर करता था मैं जिसका हर एक लम्हा हर एक पल,आज रूबरू हुए थे हम...
जिस्म को नही, उसकी रूह को सहलाया था मेरे हाथो ने…एक मुद्दत के बाद मुस्कुराया था मैं...और उस फलीज़ जिस्म के लब हिले थे..
- Zoya Warsi


मेरी नज़र से तू आईने में देख,
हम दोनो तुझे एक नज़र आऐंगे ¶
- Aishwarya Rai


Second Entries:

You are here with two patients?
Yes, one is my wife and one is my lover
We are sorry but we can save only one.
Can’t I save both of them?
No, we are sorry but you have to choose one. Who will be the one for you?
Doctor and A man talking.
- Vishal Lokhande

Theme 57 - Change

First day of college.
Freshers.
New people.
“You deserve someone who could change you” He remembered being told before being left.
And then he saw her. Her eyes had that never ending twinkle, her beauty, flawless.
"What to do you dream of?" they asked her.
"To bring a change." she said at once.
He smiled.
- Sonal Joshi


Shreya was gazing at the rain outside the window in reminiscent mood. She closed her eyes and realized a fear of closeness with him which had taken a nasty turn in her life. It's not the same smile they exchanged, not the same texts, waiting for calls became obsolete. At last, a drop of change snuggled.
- Sanchi Bahrani


Two patients were hospitalized in the same room. First patient's bed was close to the only window and was allowed to sit; he described all the beautiful things outside to his roommate. One day it was revealed that the other patient was blind and he replied "It gave me happiness to make a change in your day".
- Divneet Kaur Walia


Mr. Mehta: Hey young boy, its election time and I think you haven’t voted.
Young boy: Does that make a change? I anyways was busy in my TOEFL classes.
Mr. Mehta: Haha! Young boy, does that make a change?
If you can’t bring a CHANGE in your own country, what would you bring in other?
- Vishal Lokhande


It's night. Raining. A girl walks alone along the sidewalks as she sees a man following her. Petrified, as the horrific stories run in her head, she is abruptly stopped by the man, only to hand over the watch that had fallen.
Perceptions need to change, don't they?
- Harshit Bhatnagar


She looked at him from a distance. Noticed his clothes and smile. Saw him walking towards her.
She saw through the pain he had been hiding behind that smile. Felt like talking to him about it.
But, soon the signal went green. She just handed him some change, a sympathetic smile and pressed the accelerator.
- Priyanka Dharamsi


जैसे एक गिरगिट रंग बदलता है, उसी प्रकार हँवा की दिशाये बदलती हैं..
पंख कभी उत्तर की ओर जाता है, कभी दक्षिण की
इंक में डूबते ही कहता है "आज कुछ नया कहना, कुछ नया लिखना हैं"
पन्नो की ओर आते ही ये मुलायम भीगा पंख,
बेशक एक 'कलम' बन जाता हैं |
- Aishwarya Rai


एक कंबल और शराब की बोतल के दम पर कुर्सी की इज़्ज़त कमाई थी,तरक्की के धोके की बदौलत..और आज जनाब झूटे मूँह भी उस ग़रीब बस्ती के रास्ते गुज़रना वाजिब नही समझते...आख़िर गिरगिट की तो फ़ितरत ही होती है रंग बदलना...
- Zoya Warsi


Second Entries:
Everything for her was different. Being raised by a father, from the making of her ponytails to having "THE TALK", it was all different for her.
Not having a parent changes everything, doesn't it?
- Harshit Bhatnagar

एक घड़ी में रंग बदल गया उसका,
कलम लिखते-लिखते रूक गया
और कागज़ आज भी खाली है |
- Aishwarya Rai

Friend: This society is totally annoying. Lifestyle shehri, par soch ekdum gaonwali... cleanliness, traffic rules se lekar love marriages & riots tak... Jo dikhta hai sab badalne ki zarurat... FB par page bana diya aaj tere bhai ne...People will take initiative... Kya bolta hai?
Me: May be for someone else, you are annoying!
- Shashank Mehta


वन्स अपॉन अ टाइम इन मुंबई
एक हसीना थी एक दीवाना था
एक नज़र मैं प्यार हुआ इकरार हुआ
फिर कहानी मैं आया ट्विस्ट
आया एक विलेन केरने दोनो में ब्रेक-उप,
पर दीवाना निकला एक था टाइगर
मारी विलेन को किक तो देअथ
फिर हुआ एक विवाह ऐसा भी बने दोनो एक दूजे के.

- Geetika Sharma

Theme 56 - Fight

SEASON II

One day I saw my nephew fighting for something, he was crying, I asked him the reason he said his brother slept in is mom's lap and knowing this cute reason, I thought about those old days when I used to fight for my mom's lap with my brother, those fights were so adorable.
- Disha Joshi


Last night I got a text … "When your tears roll down and you still carry on with anger in your eyes ready to fight, please leave it."
Call buzzed, he said, "Fights always go on between friends but don't drag it so much that it ends our friendship."
Tears rolled down again.
- Khyati Jain


Rajeev was thinking deeply, sitting on a cliff, a vendor questioned him on sitting there; he replied "I had a fight with my mother. Therefore was upset.". Vendor said "Go and ask your mother to forgive you." Rajeev said "No my friend I can't ask for forgiveness because my mother is no more in this world."
- Divneet Walia

And suddenly all of it came to an end with a fight, just the way it had begun.
- Jaya Kataria


"She's dying," they told him.
He sat next to her bed in the hospital and held her hand.
"Fight." he said.
She opened her eyes and smiled. "Fight to live one more night?"
"No," he said, "Fight to fight me again like last night."
And the cardiograph went silent.
He cried.
- Sonal Joshi


Praising the nature, I was sitting near hill. Mountains far away, partially covered with snow. Water making its way through rocks, elegantly.
Distracted by noise, saw two squirrels playing & fighting for a peanut.
They were peppy & at the end shared the peanut.
'Every creature made by God is unique & enlightens the nature.'
- Rashmeet Kaur Bedi.


She was the elder one but he was mature. Not a day would pass when the fight to superiority was set aside. Finally on the wedding day, when he hugged her to bid farewell, she whispered bursting into tears, "Bhai tu jeeta ... bas Inke saamne toh DIDI boldey yaar ..."
- Lokesh Dugar


Brother: Hey ! You wore my slipper.
Sister: Wear the other one.
Brother angrily wore the slipper, perhaps the only one left .
....The slipper wore by the girl was not in a usable condition.
- Swati Bhandari


She was drowning with the inner demons of despair. She knew it could be over anytime. But, she was a phoenix and rose from the ashes; made friends with the demons and now it was just hope all around. That was, for her, the best and toughest fight ever.
- Osheen Shrivastav


So again today, there was a fight between them! Mother, wanted to do anything to make the two brothers live in the same house with peace. She yelled, screamed and wanted to stop them at once! But not after she knew the reason of fight was to make her feel special. She felt loved!
- Sakshi Singh


Every night we fought to separate our ways as we knew we were not meant to be. 

...But mornings just found us closer than before.
- Priyanka Dharamsi


Sweethearts from school, they never knew they'll have this tough path ahead. Standing in the court, he realized, that the fights that once bought them together and made them stronger, drove them apart.
He won the fight, but lost everything else.
- Harshit Bhatnagar


Suddenly, he pushed me away from him and walked away leaving me alone on one rainy day.
All I can say was "Please don't stop this? Just don't!" But, he was gone.
We now share a bond of mute fights because of that destined but unfortunate kiss that just took place that day.
- Aishwarya Rai


He lied and I was furious.
He put his hands around my waist and asked, "Can I kiss your belly while we fight?"
I shivered..
"It won't be a fight then."
He smiled that smile and pulled me closer.
"Oh! Trust me, it will be."
- Priyanka Agrawal


बचपन के वो दिन थे
दोनो हर पल एक दुउजे का साया बन रहते
चोट एक को लगती दर्द दूसरे को होता
झगड़ा भी यहाँ पल भर का मेहमान होता
हर चीज़ में शेरिंग होती.

बड़े होने पेर यह भाई प्रॉपर्टी के नाम पेर ऐसे झगड़े
मानो महाभारत युध हो
...काश वो बचपना हमेशा रहता.
- Geetika Sharma


लड़ाई थी उस बहते पानी से जिसने मेरे अब्बा की जान ली थी,
उस पाबन्ध वक़्त से जो खुद ही से पहले, मेरी अम्मा को भी दूर ले गया,
इन्हें आज भी फांसी नहीं हुई, शायद कभी नहीं होगी|
- Osho Jain


वो अहम् अह्म था दोनो के लिए..साहबज़ादे की ज़िद अगर उसके लिए अज़ीज़ थी तो आप तो उसके बाप थे....
उस जंग ने ज़ंग लगा दिया था उस लोहे से मज़बूत रिश्ते मे...वो जंग थी...कभी ना झुकने की...
-Zoya Warsi

Second Entries:

It’s about the day I was left alone in the flooded area, the day after which I had no one else behind, the day after which I would have to fight with the world alone.
- Swati Bhandari


The principles that her mother taught her were her foundation. But in a time for desperate need of money for her mother's operation, she encountered the biggest fight of them all within her-
To choose her mother's values, everything she stood for, and lose her, or to choose her mother, and well, still, lose her.
- Harshit Bhatnagar

Theme 39 - Eye

Black when I get up, black throughout the day, black my routine & dreams, thus black again.
I could hear him weep, when I answered this, to his question, “Why you like black so much?"
Long time has passed and I have accepted blindness as a part of my life. . .
- Mehul Newaskar


Posed randomly for pics with my girls. Later that night, as I swiped through my photo gallery, I suddenly realized that it wasn't a very best day with him.
My eyes had done the talking. Reflecting the pain and disappointment in every picture..
- Apoorva Ranka


So small, yet so cute… they added a charm to her pictures because whenever she smiled, her eyes closed and that is what he loved most about her.
- Ankita Binnani


He said "I love you" after whipping her too hard for he had seen her with another man, a friend. She kept looking in his eyes, searching the meaning of those words for him.
But after a while, he left her alone and the voice of the door shut shook her out of her reverie.
- Jaya Kataria

In a hospital room... 
"You'll have to take my place now..”
"But how would we do without you?"
"I'm sorry.. My mistake, I should have seen the truck coming."
"I had signaled him too. But it was too late, we lost you."
"I guess it was bound to happen.."
...the accident victim's eyes and ears talked.
- Priyanka Dharamsi


It was love at first sight when their eyes met. Her hazel-brown eyes were famous for not betraying her feelings, emotions, to anyone. But his dark eyes saw right through them. She smiled a bit. He came closer, boldly enough. They kissed, sparks flew. That started a story that was happily ever after.
- Smit Patel

Second Entries:

She could not see this world, but she could feel its beauty because he was always there to hold her hand and guide her. 

For them, surely, love was blind.

- Ankita Binnani

Theme 38 - Music

Rhythm was in her blood. Cadence was in her veins. She respired Melody. Resonance was what she exhaled. Her heartbeats were more of Jingles and Hymns. Her lips uttered symphony. The timbre of her voice was mesmerizing.
"But where is she?"
He was quiet for a moment. "I've lost the Music of my life."
- Tanya Jain


After a hectic routine of life in night soft music is such a relief for me. Just listening to my favorite track shifts my temperament from an adult to a small child, full of life…
- Khyati Jain


Standing at King's Door
Singing my Old Song
Shower of Gold
Shower of blessings
Sail on to your endless dreams.
I have listened to this guy in EMRC's Srajan,
And today I am standing in million
Striving for his autograph,
Proudly wanna say.. that one day,
It was magical!

A moment in Heaven.
- Avinash Kashyap


Whenever he felt lost, irritated, alone or afraid, Rishank would switch on the tape recorder and listen his childhood lullaby recorded in his mother's voice. It made him feel like a baby in his mother's arms. The feeling which comforted him the most.
Music in its own form, was serving its purpose indeed.
- Lokesh Dugar


What is it, which must be God, an invincible power, which can give you life, can make you smile & can refine your soul?
No one answered the question asked by new teacher, she then announced, “I say, Music, what do you all think?"
Everyone had smile on their faces; the teacher was here to stay.
- Mehul Newaskar


Yesterday when we decided to end it all, I asked for all the memories he had given me over the years. 

So, he sent me those. In the form of a mixed tape..of the songs he always had been dedicating to me.
He was special, so had to be his good bye.
- Priyanka Dharamsi

65 years, their marriage was. They had a different way to concede the defeat. They used to put on a song, to let the other one know, that the war is over. And a smile was an indication. And they could start talking again.
He still takes flowers to her grave, and starts the same music, in hopes to see her smile again.
- Harshit Bhatnagar

जब कभी वह इठलाती ध्वनी सुनता
खुदके एहसासों को उसमें पाता.
कभी जो कहीं रुकता
वह उसे फिर चलने की ताकत देता.
कभी देश की सभ्यता से मिलवाता
तो कभी सरहदों को पार कर
परायों को भी अपना बना लेता.
लोगो के लिये मन-बहलाने का साधन
पर उसके लिये
सांसे बन चुका था संगीत....
- Nikita Kumawat