BY Ravi Shankar (Khara) February 2017.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the collection of a dozen or so glossy XXX pictures that we were ogling would have been worth the entire unillustrated Kamasutra. Let me explain: The glossies had been smuggled…

(Paanch sou ka bundle) A short story by Ravi Shankar (Khara) November 2016. All rights reserved.

Even if the city roads of Hyderabad unloaded all the dust, soot and grime on his beloved auto rickshaw, Zaheer armed with a wet rag, a bucket of soap…

by Ravi Shankar

The black board at Iyengar’s Ice-cream parlor listed only two possibilities of Ice-creams in a big stylish handwriting — ‘Vanilla’ and ‘Mango.’ Below on the board in larger, firm, vehement letters — ‘Goods will never be sold on credit.’

By Ravi Shankar (earlier published in Sulekha)

The young lad looked very small as he struggled up the hill on his father’s old bicycle. He was riding it in the scissors style with his legs under the passenger rod and he could hardly keep it from swaying side to side for the road…

A loving tribute to our beloved HPS Begumpet Physics Head of Department Daniel Sam by (Ravi Shankar, (Khara), an attentive Physics student)