• English - Romance

    When the Light Changed

    Reyan D’Souza The First Red Light It began, as many quiet revolutions do, with something small. Aria was running late again—not disastrously, not enough to be fired—but just enough to skip breakfast, mutter at the broken coffee machine in her apartment building, and step onto the pavement at exactly 7:58 a.m., breathless. The traffic light in front of her office glowed a fierce red, holding back the swarm of pedestrians like a patient conductor. That was when she saw him. Standing across the street, half in shadow, half in light, holding a book in one hand and a bag slung…

  • English - Romance

    Pages of Silence Author: Anirudh Shenoy

    Anirudh Shenoy Part 1: The First Page It was a quiet Sunday evening when she first walked into the Indigo Reads Café on Church Street, the new venue for Bangalore’s freshly launched Silent Book Club. Outside, the sky threatened rain but held itself back, as if not to disturb the pages yet to be turned. Inside, the café smelled of roasted Arabica and old wood, its corners filled with tall green plants and even taller bookshelves. The event board near the counter read “Silent Book Club – 5 PM Onwards,” written in neat, cursive chalk. She glanced around, her tote…