“Shefali, please yaar icing dena jaldi”, Naina’s urgent voice cut across the kitchen and Shefali hurried up to her with the icing cone. The Saturday was special, extremely special, for Naina. The white icing flowed smoothly as the words “Happy Birthday Sameer” was etched across the top of the…

The next couple of days quickly enlightened Sameer with the fact that his shy, innocent Naina had developed a streak of boldness, and he was enthralled to see her like that. If Sameer thought that Naina had been kidding when she had said she would teach him, his misconception…

To say that Sameer was surprised would be an understatement. Once he had absorbed the fact that Naina was really standing before him, he had started grinning like an idiot. She looked so irresistible dressed in that pink midi dress that subconsciously he raised his hand to cup her…

“Oh saheb, joine chaalo” (Oh sir, watch where you are going); the sharply spoken Gujarati command broke into his thoughts and Sameer looked up to find that he had been about to collide with a coolie. The coolie rushed past him without hearing his murmured apology. As the red…

The sound of the train whistle echoed in the compartment as a cold-drink vendor hollered at the top of his voice and clinked the bottle opener against the bucket full of ice and then against glass bottles of soft drinks creating a musical note to allure the minds of…