Genesis (Part-2)

Story:
Ethan stopped. Looked at the sky once again. The sky is not moving. The white parts that are transparent, are moving as if the sky was like an earth to those white transparent things to stand and move. He named them as clouds. He felt something, like a hand, touching and moving along with clouds. He named it air.

Then his thought process began to visualize a new theme. He went back to the people, gathered them, and showed them the clouds, made them feel the air and started teaching them..

"The human beings are the clouds and the earth is the sky. The people like clouds, forced with rituals and orders of the community heads that resembles air, move with it.But there is a difference. The clouds, couldn't think. Hence, they don't stop. But, it is a different story with man. If he wants, he can stop. He can stop and think. He can go in an entirely different direction. A billion years from now, these clouds may be moving in the same way, forced by the air in the same direction. But we, we could make a difference. We could think. We can discover new things. The animal skin we wrap around ourselves and the houses we build with stones are the same since the past thousand years. Why not change? Why not spread? Why not increase ourselves? Protect ourselves with new weapons! Should we be like animals that can communicate in only one language or discover new ones and move out. Raise, wake up. We need not follow the heads, who give us orders and whose son rules us and for generations, be slaves to them. Come with me, we will explore the whole world and where ever you deem fit, you can occupy and stay in that land"

Genesis (Part-1)

In the beginning there was nothing. In the end, there will be nothing.

Story:
Once upon a time, billions of years ago; When humans feared getting scattered away, when each and every human being alive on the planet, lived in a place, that extended a few hundred meters on all sides; there was a man. Ethan is his name. Always used to give shudders to the people by suddenly disappearing from the community, going to far off places and teaching people to not sit at one place, but explore. Fearing that his words may act as spell in the community spirit that the next generation needs to learn, Ethan was abolished from the community. Ethan, not knowing where to go, started running, towards the place where he always wanted to go - The place where the sky meets mountains. He ran and ran, there are mountains behind mountains, but the sky always resided on the farthest mountain visible. Then he got an idea...

Why am I running after it? Why isn't it running after me; just the same way I got intrigued by it, why isn't it interested in a person like me, who could stand alone from the community?

So he started running back. Towards the community. The air flow made the sky move forward and it appeared to Ethan, as though the sky is moving towards the community too and is racing against him. He ran fast. Faster than the sky so as to reach the community, earlier than it. He suddenly stopped. The sky isn't moving. Some thick white layers on it, are moving. Why? Again he thought....

Elope

Raju and Rani, in their 20's loved each other. Their phone conversation, tapped by a guy..

Raju - "Rani, I am sorry"
Rani - "I will kill you, if you don't come; and take me. I am getting married tommorrow morning. Don't you understand !!!"
Raju - "It's risky. More over, I don't have a job"
Rani - "No guy, shown in movies who elopes with a woman has a job. We can think of that later"
Raju - "No Rani. If I take you with me, I have a maximum of 1000$ in my bank. We go to a city, and with in 3 months, all of that will get exhausted. I can't"
Rani - "With in 3 months, you can get a job. If not, I will. More over, I have a lot of gold, brought for my marriage. I will bring it all. Please come and take me"
Raju - "then"

calculating in mind, "It's ok. I will come and take you. And we will be happy together. I will be on the road, that is back of your house in 10 min. Be there. And especially don't forget the gold"
Rani - "Ok"

Rani slowly opens the back door. A 24 year old guy, stands there. He is Lokesh.

Lokesh - "Where are you going ?"

Rani - "Do I need to tell you. First of all, who are you and why..?"
Lokesh - "I have tapped the phone"
Rani - "Please, help me; but don't stop me. I want to marry Raju"
Lokesh - "He is not the one for you"
Rani - "How can you..?"
Lokesh - "He got ready to take you out and elope, only when you told him, that you will bring money. That means, money decides your relationship. It won't stand long"
Rani - "Hmm, I haven't thought so"
Lokesh - "Think, take you time. Think about the parents, who brought you up with no ROI for 20 years and think of the guy who tried to get ROI on the very onset of your legal relationship"
Rani sat there, thinking. Then,
Rani - "Thank you. Now, if you go out, I will close the door and will marry the man, my parents have seen"
Lokesh went out. Rani went and stood beside the bride groom, while the marriage ritual started. Rani turned to look at the bridegroom. Surprise, it's Lokesh

Ithadu (Part-4)

Story

"Wake up"
Nandu slowly tried to open his eyes,
Malli - "Wake up. I already told you yesterday that we are going to station. You hadn't got an alarm ?"
Nandu - "Malli, you look like you were still fifteen. Or am I dead and is this heaven ?"
Malli with a stern voice- "We are fifteen" and then - "Had a bad dream ?"

Nandu - "Oh no. Means I was dreaming. Shit"
Malli - "Ohh, you watched Athadu again ?"
Nandu - "Yes"
Malli - "You fool. It's a movie. How many times I have told you to just watch it as a movie, but not to fantasize about it ?"
Nandu - "You are not gonna believe me. I was running behind a train, CBI was after me..."
Malli - "Please. I don't understand why you get almost the same dream and why I always die in it. Ok get ready, we are going to be late"
Nandu - "Yeah"

Nandu woke up, got ready and then Malli took him to the station. Malli took him to the end of the platform which is almost deserted. Then,
Malli - "Sorry Nandu"
Nandu - "Why ?"

A group of 10 people surrounded them.
Malli - "I am in desperate need of money. And a person in Hyderabad is in deperate need of kidney. So"
Nandu - "So"
...................

THE END

Fear (Part-1)

Before Word
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to persons or things or events whether current or deceased is purely coincidental

Story
I completed my under graduate studies. After much thought and deliberation, I decided to go for higher studies. Higher studies are costly, especially in the 21st century. So, I choose a college, where I could stay for first one month, without paying the semester registration fee. I also choose this college, so that if I don’t like this college, I could switch to another college with similar options. I am an Indian and the college I choose was in USA. I took a cheap class Air India ticket and boarded the flight. Of course, throughout the journey I could only sit and the seats are not that comfortable. I choose this and I have to bear with it.

My cousin was already staying there in a room that is nearby to the college. He came to the airport and took me to his room. We chatted a little, and then he told me, that there was already one of his friends, who started the graduate studies this year in the same college and was staying in a hostel inside it; if I want, I could share his room for some time. I told my cousin – “fuck yeah” .

He dropped me inside the college and introduced me to his friend Ram. I dodged my luggage in Ram’s room and my cousin, left me.
Ram – “Don’t fear, I have a phone and we could reach your cousin any time you want”
Me – “Cool”
Ram – “People come to US not just for studies, but for something more”
Me – “You mean fucking”
Ram – “Yeah, now you speak my language. Let’s go”

Yeah, this was one of the intricate reasons for me to come here. After getting freshen up, me and Ram left the dorm, and started walking towards our class room. It was a long walk, almost a kilometer. We started walking on road, then on twigs under the shade of trees, then again roads... As good as it gets, I observed that the college was a den for girls, with little boys inside it. And it was common for the girls to go out with professors here, Ram was telling me. So, I guess even if we were caught, there won’t be too much punishment. Whoa, what am I thinking, I came here for studies. That’s the main reason. The rest is just an afterthought. But the girls here, huh, God help me.

One more thing I observed is the snakes. The snakes were moving as if they were one of us, and the dirty part, everyone in the college felt the same. No one is shaking, when a snake is moving beside them; Some people were even giving a fond look towards them when they were passing and when I asked one of the workers – “They were also living creatures like us, why bother? You must be new to this place, but you will soon get inhabited”. Ram and I, keeping our fear in the fists, moved slowly, getting past the snakes, towards the class room. We saw few other people, watching their steps and realized that they were also freshers like us. We all got together and entered the class room but were soon to realize that it was empty. We were no more than fifteen in all and that’s it. That’s the class strength supposed to join a reputed American university for a fall semester. Something is definitely wrong here.

We slowly went inside, looking for snakes, below the desks and occupied the seats. We just hoped that some dirty old professor may enter the class except an excited teenage snake. Then, a beautiful woman entered. Her wrinkles articulated that she was thirty, but the hotness - sixteen. Yeah, I came to college for this.
Teacher with a curved smile on her lips– “Good morning students. Welcome to the graduate studies. Your hearts may be beating hard because of the snakes; but, believe me, one month is all it takes, to get acquainted with this place”

And after one week, I was looking for ways to escape from the campus, alive if possible. What happened ?

Ithadu (Part-3)

Special entry
........... - Ramu
Vamsi - Thoni
Anjaneya Prasad (CBI) - Ravi

Story

Prasad did not waste time. From the commissioner's office, he went straight to the scene of crime along with his assistants Thoni and Ramu. It was a station which is the immediate next one to where Puri, Malli and Nandu boarded.

Prasad stood watching the tracks

Thoni - "Sir, it was seven years ago. What are you watching for ?"
Ramu - "Shut up Thoni. Sir is looking for some clues. How dare you question him ? Show some loyalty man"
Prasad - "Close your mouth Ramu. It's the way you develop. Asking questions" turning to Thoni's side - "Do you know how Malli died ?"
Thoni - "Ofcourse. Nandu killed him"
Ravi - "Do you think so ?"
Thoni - "Yeah. That's what the head lines in the newspapers said seven years ago"
Ravi turning to both Thoni and Ramu - "First rule of CBI. Don't believe media"

"I was like one of you, seven years ago. Working under Ramana sir, who is a retired CBI officer now. The case was handed to the CBI then, as police gave ambiguous reports to the higher officials. So, a green signal was given to the CBI, and the case was handed to Ramana sir. The police were reluctant to hand over the dead body of Malli. But we applied for special permission and got it. We then gave the body for post mortem. In the post mortem, it was found that he was killed with a Sword, plunged through his lungs"

Ramu - "What's the big deal ? Nandu killed Malli with a sword"

Prasad - "Here comes the big deal. In the police report, they stated that they found a knife there, with Nandu's finger prints on it and then, a case was filed on Nandu"

Thoni - "Oh my God. Then, Nandu did not kill Malli. But, why did not you people?"
Prasad - "report to the authorities. We tried. Then they asked - who killed Malli"
Thoni - "Some one else in the compartment, may be"
Prasad - "The compartment is a special one and it was not reserved to any one at that time"
Thoni - "But sir, in the chaos created at the station, some one might have stepped into the train along with Nandu and Puri"
Prasad - "In the next station, the compartment was empty, except for Nandu's body. We have information that three of them boarded at the prior station and they were Nandu, Puri and Malli"
Ramu - "May be Nandu tried to elope with Puri. Malli tried to get them back to home and so Nandu killed Malli"
Prasad - "It's not possible. I have enquired about Nandu and Malli from their school friends. Nandu is more of a fearful person compared to Malli. If some one tried to convince to go back home, it should be Nandu"

The three were silent for some time. Then Prasad

"It was unbelievable. An entire police batallion was stationed in the station and the three of them escaped. People in the station reported that Nandu boarded a running train"

Ramu, jiggling - "I too have boarded twice or thrice"
Thoni - "Ramu, did you read the files thoroughly. Nandu boarded a train moving at 100 km/hr"
Prasad exclaimed- "If we would have sent Nandu to olympics, he would have bought a gold to India"

Seven years ago

[Inside the train, Nandu, Malli and Puri talking after Nandu boarded]

Nandu – “Tell me onething. Does your father know that you are going with Malli ?”
Puri – “No. He knows only that I am going with someone”
Nandu – “hmm..”
Malli - "Oh, you thinking that the commissioner will come after you, thinking you have eloped with Puri. Ha ha"
Puri turning to Malli - "Well. If I have encountered Nandu earlier than you, may be I would have eloped with him"
Blinking one of her eyes to Nandu - "Kill Malli. I can elope with you right away"
Nandu laughed. Puri and Malli too..
Then..

Ithadu (Part-2)

Special-entry:

Anjaneya Prasad (CBI) - Ravi

Story:

Nandu - "This train leaves in one more minute, board it"
Malli - "you ?"
Nandu - "I will have to make a call"
Puri - "We can do it later. Don't you understand, the station is surrounded by police"
Nandu gave a serious glance at Malli. Malli gave a nod as if he understood something.

Malli - "Puri, let's go"
Malli and Puri boarded the train. The wheels of the train started screeching the tracks. Nandu was still standing there, not moving an inch.
Puri standing on the ledge of the compartment, gave a shout - "Nanduuu, come"

The shout did not startle Nandu, but the police recognised her. The police started running behind the train. Malli pulled Puri back into the train. The police started making whistles with the hope that some will pull the chain and some one did. But then, an announcement

"There is a bomb in the station. It will explode in the next five minutes"

The train is still inside the station. Chaos spread all over. Scared of death, the passengers moved like apes. The police couldn't run in the midst of that maniacness. The train driver, listening to the announcement, started racing the train again, even though it is necessary as per protocols to know why the chain was pulled before starting the train again. Lives are at stake here. If the train moves away from the station, he would have saved all the people in the train.

Standing on the ledge, Malli looked outside as the train started moving. In the midst of that chaos, where people are unaware of the direction, there is one person who is moving as if he knows where to go. Not moving, running. To everyone who saw him inside the station, he appeared blurred. Malli recognised, it was Nandu.

The train left the station, completely by now and Nandu was still running behind it. Nandu's speed got increased, and slowly one after the other, he started crossing the compartments. Malli extended his hand, when Nandu was crossing the compartment behind, and then pulled him inside. The compartment was mostly empty. So, the three of them sat together and after Nandu has eaten enough air, they started talking

Nandu - "Tell me onething. Does your father know that you are going with Malli ?"
Puri - "No. He knows only that I am going with someone"
Nandu - "hmm.."

Seven years later..

Commissioner office, commissioner-smoking a cigar. A CBI officer walks in.

Prasad - "Hello, I am Anjaneya Prasad. CBI"
Commissioner - "Hello, have a seat"

Prasad after settling in,

Prasad - "Reason for calling me ?"
Commissioner - "I heard a lot about you. You solved a lot of complex cases. Recently I heard that you solved the murder case of Shiva Reddy"
Prasad - "I asked the reason for calling me"
Commissioner - "Ok, I will come to the point. Seven years ago, my daughter eloped with someone. I did all I can with in my power to catch him. But our police department couldn't locate him"
Prasad - "Look, I don't deal with cases of this type"
Commissioner - "Listen completely. The guy who eloped with my daughter, did a phonecall to the announcement room of the station for spreading chaos. We traced the call later, and found that it came from a juice point inside the station. As per the description of the owner, a sketch is drawn. Here's the sketch"
Prasad - "Oh my God, this.."
Commissioner - "Yes, he is Nandu. I hope you remember the case that was flashed seven years ago. Two close friends, Nandu and Malli; took the permission of their parents, to go for a movie and left home. But none of them returned. While Malli was found dead on the train that moved away from the station at the time of chaos, Nandu disappeared. So, we can consider that Nandu killed Malli. This was the photograph of Nandu, taken from his home which appeared in the tabloids seven years ago. So Nandu is the guy, who eloped with my daughter. From the past seven years, I have been searching for him and my daughter. But I couldn't find them. The police department as a whole couldn't. Now tell me, will you handle the case ?"
Prasad - "Ok, I will"
Commissioner - "These are the case files. Please keep informing me any lead that you get in this point"
Prasad - "Sure sir"