The Insight

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Analysis, Commentaries, and Contemporary Stories On India and Global Trends

Category: Fiction

The Black Diamond

A small village in the hinterlands of Jharkhand “It’s simple child. You go there, pick up some coal, return & we pay you five rupees every day” said the stout middle-man, Vishnu beamingly. “So, children pick up your shovels & get to business we’ve enough work at hand” added Vishnu as he looked towards the — read more

Jul 3, 2016
Gods & Rivers

At times, it requires a calamity to change the destiny of people. There’s always a lingering hope in even the darkest of clouds — read more

Dec 26, 2015
Gods & Rivers

PRELUDE: There sits a village perched between two hills. Here flows a river so pristine people would sing eulogies in its name. Some hundred families populate either side of this mighty river which they say directly descends from the heavens as a gift for their virtuous deeds in the previous life. The village on either — read more

Dec 13, 2015
A Call Unanswered (Part 2)

And thus broke his dreams an umpteenth time. The man with his hoarse voice continually uttered things as the boy tried to overcome his sleep, “Ajit, wake up, you scoundrel, it’s time for the work.” So, he was Ajit, the miserable, whose life had turned upside down in a matter of minutes. Here he was — read more

Aug 2, 2015
A Call Unanswered

Prelude: 1. He plods through the town, with his clothes turning into rags & rags into tatters. At times, destiny plays those cruel tricks as if by sheer dynamics of chance, it is you on whom befalls the fiery wrath of Gods. The fall from grace, from the pedestal of relative prosperity hits the hardest. — read more

Jul 24, 2015
The Less Fortunate

The sufferings of aboriginal tribes of Jharkhand sees no ending. Caught between the vicious struggle of supremacy between the security forces & the Maoists they’ve no where to go. — read more

May 31, 2015