Amidst the stretches of barren land and an un-ending expanse of dreaded shrubs, a gazelle of echoes that faded to the decibels of melancholy, sat a young 20 something, with a violin, dilapidated with time, as he strum a tune, in the memory of his teenage fantasy. A wrecked heart perhaps humming a melody hoping that the diminishing echoes would for once distinguish from the savaged ambience that buried the enchantments of his love, a transient delight. Many a town-mates disregarded the age old existence of Samantha and testified evidences of his eccentricity, but he continued, one note to another, in the hope that one day, she would return to ornate the dreadful scape of togetherness, she left behind, once upon a time. Often, he would walk along the shores of Riverville, where he would wait hours, hoping for those paperboats that they crafted together, to come back with a message from his cherished bygone. Often he would speak to the birds, and embrace the branches of a tree and you'd see him dance to the rhy

MR. R- FACE TO FACE    STORY:               At Rihaan’s house, Tanya gets worried when Jeet tells her that Nagar Reddy aka ‘Diablo’ is also inside the prison and Jeet says, “It may get worse if, he gets into Special Prisons.”                         Rihaan inside is taken in the jail and he is standing with other prisoners and just then, the Warden Rajvardhan Singh aka ‘Tiger’ comes there, who has eye patch on one of the eyes and says, “Hello, everyone…”             He directly comes to Rihaan and says, “So, we have a special guest, huh!!! A celebrity!!! I got the news from the Head Office and I will see to that, your one month goes very long.”         &nbs

He had straight, neatly cut hair; sharp, intelligent eyes and distant eyebrows. I couldn’t make out whether his eyes were black or brown; it had a tinge of both the shades, but more of brown. His face was broad, but also on longish side, and not moon shaped like Vishal’s. Dusky complexion not dark like mine, long sharp nose, and light brown fully curved lips added to his boyish charm. A soft dimple showed on his right cheek when he stretched his lips into a smile.  I quickly turned my face away when Jai paused in the middle of a sentence; he had caught me observing his facial expressions. “Hello, where are you?” he waved his fingers in front of my nose to bring me back. Embarrassed, I suddenly got up.  “I should leave now, I am getting late,” I said. Even before I knew what I was saying, I had reached the door of the coffee shop. From the corner of my eyes, I saw him looking at me through the large glass window while I walked shyly on the footpath. His face wa

An excerpt from "The Trail of Four" Stefan sucked in his breath, his heart plummeting to the pit of his stomach. The rain splattered all around the Schloss garden, the lawn underwater and everything slippery. Two of his men stepped out of the pond, hauling the body over the edge. The Hercules statue towered behind them, a large looming shadow with features invisible in the darkness. Twoothers held large open umbrellas, and flashlights to light up their way.‘Good job, boys! Be careful, this part of the pond is virtually untouched,’ Stefan cautioned, trying to keep his emotions in check. In reality, he felt an icy hand clutch his insides. If he was right, then the worst nightmare had begun.‘It’s the dogs. They sniffed it out. Which was really lucky, because this pond is much further away from the Schloss, kind of hidden behind these tall trees, and the body had slid behind the Hercules statue,’ Kurt reported, his voice raised over the din of the rain.‘Turn him around,’

MR. R- DEATH SQUAD PART 1   STORY:             After the threats of Death Squad, Rihaan, Jeet and Chang head to Delhi to save the President.                         The flight lands and they take their special luggage to the hotel where President is also staying.             Next day, they are watching the President from a distance as they cannot intervene in his meetings, after sometime; they come to know he is going to the other side of the City for a meeting             Rihaan then says, “What to do?”                         Jeet says, “I say, we should follow him. Death Squad cannot be trusted, t

MR. R –  FACING STINGER STORY:               In an industry, a weapons developer is making a weapon and he is seeing pictures of a Scorpion and designing that device and after sometime, he gets a call from the Kumar Enterprises saying that they have agreed to give him a chance to show his presentation.             He reaches the Company and when in lift, he meets Rihaan who is arriving at the company and meets him.             Rihaan says, “Hey, I know, your photo was shown to me yesterday, you are showing a presentation, right, what your name is?”             The guy says, “Dhanraj Singhania.”                         Rihaan says, “Y

MR. R- ARYAN SACHDEVA (SCARFACE)   STORY:             Rihaan is at home resting and he gets a letter by post and he takes a look at it and smiles at the name of who has sent it and goes at the Company.             In his cabin after a meeting, Rihaan is alone sitting and just then Jeet arrives to take him for lunch and Rihaan sees the letter and Jeet asks who has sent it?             Rihaan says, “This guy is like closest friend after Grandpa, he was a martial arts expert and was in China for a while and there he stayed and now he is back and he is telling me to meet him and it is true, it has been years I have met him.”                         Jeet says, “Closest friend!!! I thought I was your closest friend

MR. R- DHIREN KUMAR (THE INVISIBLE MAN)   STORY:               Rihaan, Jeet and Tanya with Raghu come to Delhi for a seminar of inventions where they are invited by Tanya’s friend.             At the seminar, many scientists arrive and show their wonderful inventions to the people and they all applaud and just then, there is a break and Tanya is having juice and when she is about to order, a voice comes, “She will have a Watermelon Juice, like always.”                         She looks and it is his, Dhiren Kumar, her ex-boyfriend and she is just delighted to see him and they both meet him and he tells that he is financing and helping his colleague, Roshan and she tells that she is a huge fashion designer and she owns a huge boutique as her boyfriend insi

MR. R- KRIPA SHANKAR (LADY KILLER)   STORY:               The story starts with a huge party where there are lots of guests including V.I.P.s, teenagers and etc.             As the party ends, there is a guy present there and he is like watching a girl and sometime later, a drunk guy comes and tries to get intimate with her by force and the guy watching here comes and beats her and he has a bit of Bihar language accent and saves the girl.             Some days, at some other party, the girl is killed and the murderer is not found and Ujwal Naik sees the girl’s dead body and he sees that she was tied to a bed and she was beaten and hit with hunters and then killed. The blood reports show that there was a drug mixed in the blood and he deducts that she was given something to drink and she got unconscious and got killed.

MR. R-  DRUG ADDICT ROY   STORY:               Some days later, Kumar Enterprises is repaired and it is made new again and Mr. James is the new Manager of that company and Rihaan helps them.             Mr. James is in a meeting with some new companies and the Charter Accountant, Mr. Joshi arrives and sees that Rihaan is missing in the meeting and after the meeting ends; Mr. Joshi in an angry manner asks the reason of Rihaan being not there in the meeting as it was his idea of expanding Kumar Enterprises and Mr. James says, “Don’t worry about him alright, Mr. Joshi, I will see what to do, he also cares about the company as much we do…. You may leave.”             Mr. Joshi leaves and Mr. James texts Rihaan and he replies, ‘At the terrace, chief!!!”       &

कोशिंबीर (Salad) People say there was a heaven and hell, I don’t know about, hell, there were heavens created on Earth in forms of Miami, Las Vegas, Brazil, and India’s own, GOA. Goa is a place which is made for all types and genres of people, young and old. Some people have a different side to it, hell side, Drugs, illegal businesses related to humans and with them, people see this and then take their eyes away. Why?                 In Panaji, Goa,               A warehouse is shown, where, some foreigners from places like UK, USA and Brazil show up a car shows up there with some men and a guy gets down, and the Brazilian person says, “Kenny!!!”               Kenny Guerrero comes out and he has guns in his clothes and brings a bag with him and says, “People love to see the h

 Medium pacer Rihanna Baig is on her bowling mark, ready to bowl… Pakistan captain Shazia Aslam comes in and gives her a last minute pointer”, the commentator gushed with obvious excitement. It was tight situation. Six runs in 2 balls. Vidya Deshmukh was on strike and one look at her showed her steely intent, reflected through her eyes. The camera zoomed in on her face, divided in parts by the helmet grill. Beads of sweat had formed on her forehead. Vidya ignored that and concentrated on the ball. As Rihanna started her run up, Vidya widened her eyes, loosened her shoulders and slowly everything except for the white coloured leather thing became a blur for her. She closed her eyes for a split second before the ball was delivered and.. “Six ..! Vidya it is 6 am! Don’t you have to go for cricket practice?” It was Vidya’s mother. 22-year old Vidya woke up with start and then wrinkled her nose.  “No ma! I was about to win the match”, she said and again

MR. R- THE LAST ACT PART 1 STORY:               Just as Rihaan hears the news, he drives fast and reaches his home and sees the whole place is blown into pieces and he sees ambulances taking people in it and Rihaan sees that the servants are taken into the ambulances.               He then goes ahead and sees that Grandpa’s friends are taken in some other ambulance and the friends tell that Grandpa is already taken to the hospital and Rihaan rushes at the hospital.               After sometime, Rihaan reaches the hospital with others and they all start searching for Grandpa. Jeet then comes to Rihaan and tells him that he has found Grandpa.               The doctors then meet Rihaan and show him that Grandpa is in at a serious stage and Rihaa

MR. R-  REUNION OF FRIENDS STORY:               When Jeet tells Rihaan that Reddy’s son is, Nagar Reddy, he looks at all the information again about the Reddy and Nagar.               Grandpa says, “What my theory says, that Reddy and Jadhav planned your father’s death and when Reddy died, Nagar took over the mercenary empire and he and Jadhav are working together.”               Rihaan says, “It is possible, see the information says, just some days ago, Reddy’s body was found at Chennai Highway where he was killed by a knife in the back and then dad and mom’s accident took place.”               Jeet says, “Why would somebody kill Reddy as he is the one who devised the plan to kill your fath

MR. R-  THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE TRUTH   STORY:               After Rihaan hears the video voice, he rewinds the video and plays it again. He then sees Jadhav talking to Reddy that it was their plan to kill Rihaan’s father and take over the company.               Rihaan gets emotional and breaks a lot of things at the base in anger and leaves the base.               He sits in his car and stops at a distance and comes out of the car and looks around and starts shouting out loud. Grandpa and Jeet come there and comfort him.               Grandpa says, “Reddy and Jadhav have murdered your father, but we don’t have a proof, we have to hear it from him.”            

MR. R- THE HUNT FOR THE ‘R’ MONSTER   STORY:               After Raka turned MR. R into a monster like him, Mr. R started to run but many times, Raka found him and beat to him to death and leave him alone and repeat the whole procedure.               Raka says, “I just feel like the hunter right now, hero….”                             Mr. R growls at him and attacks him and they have a huge brawl in a rainy night. Raka uses his long nails and scratches Mr. R and hurts him bad.               Mr. R then tries to leave and Raka catches him by neck and says, “Run, run, how much ever you can, I will beat you each day and kill you when you have a s