Kathakali Mukherjee
2 min readJul 19, 2021

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I wanted to visit all the historical locations in the Western State and that was reason I opted to move to Ahmedabad. But my moving to Gujarat coincided with COVID. And I stayed locked in home during my entire stay there. I missed history! What I found instead Past, was the Present. Staying at home, I had enough opportunity to chat with neighbours, local shopkeepers or fruit sellers. Friendly commoners, like they do in every Indian state, never mind sharing stories. And I found materials for my stories. Hence I am indebted to my once neighbours for these satirical stories I present here.

People in the days of social media try to make others feel their presence. Some of them adopt a method of vanishing time to time and re-emerge in a new avatar. My story refers to one of them.

The very religious people submit to the spiritual gurus at the time of crisis. And how a spiritual guru helps the devotees- my story tells that.

Every business owner dreams of a bright future. And the honest and committed one achieves success as well. But what happens during a time of crisis? How do they deal with the terms of ethics? Here is a story of the struggle for survival.

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Kathakali Mukherjee

Writer, translator, reader and learner - mainly into language, cultural and literary studies. Likes and retweets do not necessarily mean endorsements