11. THE CITY’S WORRY Rihaan and Tanya head for their honeymoon some days after the marriage and they leave for Switzerland and they take a place riverside to spend some time there. On the other side, The President and his other colleagues are talking and the Mayor of the City, Mr. Khanna arrives there on call by the President. The President says, “Mr. Khanna, your City was in news some years back for destruction and havoc that happened there, what is your say about it?” Mr. Khanna says, “I know, Sir, yes, there was some destruction created there, huge round ball like looking things arrived there and created havoc. Police and Army did their best but thanks to Mr. R and his team, they saved the City.” One of the ministers says, “Isn’t Mr. R a criminal, what I have heard, he killed many people and also beaten them bad using what, knives and huge guns?” Mr. Khanna says, “Yes, he has, if police fails, he is there to help us even if they hate him, there a

9. THE REUNION             Rihaan is at his house drinking and Tanya arrives there and Rihaan looks at her and says, “You lived with me, fought besides me for so many damn years against Diablo, you didn’t feel any weird?”             Tanya says, “I did feel, but that time, I cared for you more, Diablo, I didn’t, I always thought, he will at least come back for me if my father doesn’t, but I got the news that he killed him too and then from that very day I hated him and I hated him more when I heard that he killed your parents.”             Rihaan says, “All this, it is a bit indigestible for me, I never saw all this coming.”             He leaves the house in a drunken manner and Tanya tries to stop him but he pushes her.   

7. ANIMAL MONSTERS: YAKUT AND ZARDAARI PART 1   Kunal Tyagi does some final tests on the animal monsters subjects and Ghost comes inside the lab and says, “So, Doc is it done?” Kunal says, “Yes, sir, all four of them are ready.” Ghost says, “Impressive.” Queen then later arrives there and says, “We are ready then it seems.”             Kunal opens all four chambers and one by one comes out and he makes the introductions: The Eagle monster, YAKUT. (The monster shows them the wings)   The Wolf Monster, ZARDAARI. (Shows them the claws and teeth)   The Cheetah Monster, DAYAAL. (Runs fast and comes back with a dead rabbit in his mouth)   The Rhino Monster, JOGIYA. (Makes the rhino sound and shows the horn)   Ghost says, “Nice work, and they will listen to me all the time?” Kunal says, I have attached them with microphones and here is the rece

(previously titled Thief when I had posted this on Facebook)   The man had been walking for over an hour now. He was a day laborer and the past several weeks had been quite unfruitful with just two days of paid work. He thought of his wife working God knew how many jobs just to clothe and feed them and send the children to school. He saw her briefly in the evenings cooking their dinner, making sure the children studied and ate. She tucked them in bed and then ran over to the bank employees’ colony where she washed dishes in five households. By the time she came back it was all she could do to not topple over from exhaustion. Today was Sunday. The only day his wife was at home. He had left her and the kids after a glass of tea. That had been his breakfast. He had to go to the ration shop tomorrow to get the rice and wheat flour. Not that both items would ever be available on the same day but his neighborhood grapevine seemed to think that this Monday was going to be an exception. On Sundays, som

5. THE SECRET             Rihaan then arrives with Raghu in Nepal and they meet their contact and he tells them that he did see Mr. Khan around and then he also kept a check on him, but some days ago, some people came to meet him and took him with them and he followed them but he couldn’t see where he took them.             Rihaan then gives the contact a packet of money and he leaves.             Rihaan says, “Mr. Khan is a surgeon right, if, if we see, he was taken by someone, the person whoever would be was damaged externally and needed operation, but who?”             Raghu says, “Ghost!!!!”             Rihaan says, “May be, oh no, what if Diablo is alive?”      

4. SYNC STORY:               Ryan D’Silva is a huge computer programmer and software designer and he lives in New York with his uncle, Xavier.             Ryan after a year designing security software for companies gets an artificial intelligence and he names him, M.J. or MJ as he is a huge fan of Michael Jackson and gives him the voice of him too and he makes it wonderful, effective and reliable software too.             Some days later, he puts MJ in all of the house, his car and phone (just like Jarvis is all around with Tony). Then many of his friends are impressed by it and Ryan’s girlfriend, Tina arrives back in the City and she is also impressed with MJ software.             Tina who is a huge in software company knows that Ryan needs a huge break and Ryan say

2. BUSINESS RIVALS PART 1                             Rihaan is at his office and Raghu comes in his cabin and says that some is here to meet him and Rihaan goes in the conference room and when he goes in, a tall, muscular, suited guy is standing there turning his back and Rihaan says, “Excuse me, who are you?”             He turns back and Rihaan recognizes him and says, “No, you.”             The guy says, “Yes, Rihaan, me.”             The guy is actually Devraj Singhania, Rihaan’s London based friend who was his rival in college in London and with a cunning and devilish personality.             Rihaan says, &ldqu

1. THE RETURN   STORY:               A Flight of Indian Airline lands in USA and Tanya and the team come out of the plane and a car comes to pick them up and the driver gives them a letter and the car takes them to a helipad where by a helicopter they reach Miami.             As they reach Miami, they arrive at a beach and they roam around and Chang says, “Tanya, where on earth is he?”             Tanya looks around and Raghu says, “Guys, there.”             There then, Rihaan Kumar comes out from water with huge beard and long hair and he comes to them and says, “Long time, guys!!!”             Shakti says, “Yeah, very long.”        &

On the morning of Kannagi akka’s thirtieth birthday paati made payasam and served it with an unsmiling face. Akka was getting late for work, so she did not notice or chose not to notice the anger in her mother’s eyes.Later when they were preparing lunch paati said to Amma, or rather ground her teeth and growled, ‘Thirty years old! Thirty! By the time I was thirty I was mother to five children. And this ungrateful daughter of mine will not even let me die in peace. 'There was one proposal last year,' Paati continued, 'One! An engineer! They were even willing to forgo the dowry since she is in a government job. But our madam! Oh! He was not good enough for her. Now God only has to help us. How can I die in peace if she is not settled?'It was a little worrying that paati might be dying but soon our attention was caught by thaatha arriving with the latest comics newspaper and we all ran out to meet him. Thaatha would read out the comics using different voices for each character and make all the

Another brilliant piece of fiction by the 9 year old Saanvi Shrivasthava who attended Kalamwali's Creative Writing & Storytelling for Kids this summer.            “Mom, let’s go and buy me a pair of shoes. The light blue ones with golden stars are too tight for me,” Peter said. “Absolutely not! We just bought a pair of shoes for you two days ago. Try those,” his mother said. “Mumma, will you buy me a Barbie doll?” Peter’s little sister, Mia said. “Of course, dear. We’ll go right away,” her mother said. “It’s not fair!” roared Peter.          “What is not fair?” Mia asked, sweetly. “You have a million, bazillion, trillion dolls and I have just 5 pai….” –Peter said and suddenly stopped. His mother had gone to the bathroom and Mia had gone to her room to play with her dolls. Peter groaned. All of a sudd

MR. R- CHAOS TIME PART 1   STORY:               Rihaan is at his home and he is seeing his pictures with his parents, Grandpa and Jeet and he remembers all the memories with them and Tanya comes in that room and says, “Hey, you okay?”             Rihaan says, “No. It’s just, the war will start again with Diablo and he will create chaos and destruction in the City, I fear, something terrible may happen.”                         Tanya says, “Nothing will happen to anyone, don’t worry.”             Rihaan says, “I know, that’s why, I am taking a precaution, don’t get angry with me.”            

MR.R – D-DAY FOR JEET STORY:               After, Jeet and Tanya get taken by Diablo, Rihaan and others get worried and Rihaan says, “How much I know, we cannot lose both of them or Diablo may kill one of them, I don’t want to lose anyone anymore.”             At Diablo’s place, Jeet and Tanya are in hanged on chains and Aisha comes and throws water on them wakes them up.             Jeet opens his eyes and sees Aisha and says, “Why?”             Aisha says, “Why do you mean by why? I was with Diablo from the day he wanted to conquer your City, he did, but you and your friend stopped him and put him in jail, he then came out and financed my Monster project and he also brought those monsters to me, then in Delhi where the Death Squ

MR. R- CHANGE OF RULES   STORY:               Rihaan later arrives at the base and sees pictures of Diablo and his gang which consists of Queen, Apollo, Virus, Stinger, Black Dragon and Ghost.             He then hears some noises and he goes more inside, he sees Chang throwing ninja disk (Shuriken) at a board and Rihaan sees this and says, “Still angry, I see.”             Chang says, “No, just sad, that I thought Lee wouldn’t return and he did and in such a bad way…”                         Rihaan takes one of the disks and throws and hits the board and says, “What was the quarrel between you and Lee?”            

MR.R – DAVID AKA SCYTHER (THE MAIN REFERENCE TAKEN FROM THE MOVIE ‘EDWARD SCISSORHANDS’) STORY:               The story starts with Diablo and his gang at a place (den) where they are planning to conquer the City and just then, Scarface brings two people with him at the place and Diablo says, “Who are they?”             Scarface says, “This is, Mr. Fernandez, he is an inventor by profession.”             Virus says, “Inventor, you say, what did he invent?”             Scarface looks at Virus and says, “I will show you, he can help stop Mr. R and his team.”                            &

For her...true love in a relationship is... when her man trespasses her email account...she gets a notification...reads...and...suspects it is him... yet doesn't change her password...   To her man, it strikes much later that he indeed misstepped... she never utters a word about this...and he never makes the guts to admit ever... but he learns his lesson...and falls in love with her yet again...this time for real!   He keeps the guilt. She keeps the relation. 

MR.R – PRISON BREAK   STORY:               Rihaan is taken outside the Special Prisons and kept in his normal cell and sometime later, Tiger and some constables come and take him out of the cell and hang him in the middle of the whole jail with both hands tied.             Tiger comes with a rod and says, “You filthy fool, you think you are some hero, huh, thinking you are some fool that can create havoc and I will stand there and watch…”             He then hits him with a rod and keeps the beating on and on. Rihaan starts to bleed badly and Rihaan smiles at Tiger and says, “Hey, if you tired, ask your constables to carry on the beating, or tell your pimp, Diablo, as it is you are his BITCH!!!!”             Tiger then removes his gun a