Category: The Social Stories

An Elevator: The Smallest Room with the Biggest Problems There’s something about elevators that brings out the worst in people. Maybe it’s the confined space.

The Desperate Architects of Legacy: A Historical Tragedy If history had a theme, it would be “People Trying Too Hard to Be Remembered.” Some chased

By Day 6, the world outside my 10th-floor quarantine kingdom was still struggling with bureaucratic delays, police pass rejections, and logistical nightmares. Me? I had

By Day 5, the hotel had stopped resisting my presence. I had become part of the furniture. And you know what? I wasn’t even trying

By Day 4, I was no longer just a hotel guest—I was a permanent fixture. I had become the ghost of Room 1005—a presence they

By Day 3, I had fully accepted my fate. And then, just as I was beginning to truly embrace the silence, the phone rang. It

I woke up disoriented, forgetting for a moment where I was. Then it hit me—Hyderabad. Locked down. Stuck in a hotel with no staff, no

It was 2021, Wave 2 of the lockdown, and I was stuck in Hyderabad, alone in a hotel, with no way out. No flights. No

I had just returned from Singapore after a long stay—completely unaware of how much India had changed in my absence. In Singapore, I was used