An Iranian student studying in one of the most prestigious universities of India narrates a terrible incident where a bunch of goons with their faces wrapped in saffron scarves enter the University premises to physically assault the students. Can she ever forget the incident?

For the Hassan family, Hyderabad is not just where their roots lie; it is also the city that informs the way they lead their lives. Known and loved for their legendary hospitality for over four decades, Doreen and Peter Hassan have preserved a way of life, a culture and a cuisine with great affection and pride. Like generations before them, the Hassans continue to honour Hyderabadi traditions in their cosmopolitan home in Delhi, passing their love for food, family and friendships to their ...

When Sara and Maddy wander into the forbidden forest, they unknowingly drink water from an enchanted stream and trigger a terrible curse. They find themselves transformed into fawns! Will they remain fawns forever or will they be able to reverse the curse?

Shakuntala Devi is known as someone who could calculate at the speed of light. She could tell which day it was in any month in any year, and tell what your stars say about you. However, she was that and a lot more. While she was committed to making Maths easier for every child, she was also the first Indian to write about homosexuality with the aim to understand it. She had also written many cookbooks and books on social issues and had even run for elections. Storytel Original attempts to ...

Milly Masters, a housekeeper is travelling in a third class carriage of a train and the story takes us to the family in the old country house where she works. Does she have some deeper connection with the dreadful family?

The story starts on a train, when the narrator looks up from her newspaper

Why do we send our children to school? How can learning be meaningful? And most importantly, how can we build schools worthy of our children? From the time children are little, we start making stories about them. Schools are like factories where these stories are manufactured all the time. Some children, who're at the top of the social hierarchy, enjoy rich, diverse and colourful stories, which are told and retold. But there are many who spend most of their lives in school, clutching on to...

'We'll meet on the last Saturday of every month, whenever our schedules permit. Just the five of us. Brunch. Either at our houses or breakfast joints or our clubs. Catch up on our lives. Meditate together a bit. Tell each other feel-good stories. How does that sound?' Sounds perfect-but the outcome can be unforeseen. A much-honoured dancing diva meditates herself into a passionate love affair with the thirty-year-old son of her best friend. The mighty Garuda has to fly down from the legend...

I was still little then. A child of eight. "We'll marry you off to Atul," my grandmother used to say. I grew up at my uncle's—my father was a ghawrjamai; he used to live at his in- laws. Of course, I realised this equation much, much later. "Atul was the son of one of my grandmother's friends. He studied at the village school, a tall boy, fairer than the rest of his friends. Sitting inside our kitchen, he'd busy himself in conversation with my grandmother and her friends. I didn't like him...

At twenty-five, life's innumerable entanglements are getting to Arshi. Her blonde American step-mom's trying too hard (she's taken to welcoming guests with a traditional aarti). The gorgeous guy who has Arshi all flushed and dreamy doesn't seem to be trying at all (he's the Ice Prince who thaws at his own convenience). Her best friend Deeksha's going to be married in a few months (Arshi's still in the process of finding the correct labels for the men in her life). And, her otherwise unruff...

The narrator notices a mark on the wall, and there starts his monologue on religion, self-reflection, nature, and uncertainties of life.

Moments of Being was written by Virginia Woolf at various periods of her life and with various personal intentions, which explore Woolf's relationship with her past.