Vijay Likhite

“RITUALS” by Vijay Likhite

RITUALS Satish and Vishal entered the crematorium. Both of them were grieved at the loss of their friend Prakash due to some unknown illness. Satish, Vishal, and Prakash the ambitious, studious, and hard-working students,  were classmates in the third year of graduation. But unexpectedly, Prakash became ill and before the doctors could conclude the cause of illness, Prakash left this world. Satish and Vishal joined the funeral and they went to the crematorium. After performing some rituals, the body was laid on the pyre of logs of woo...

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“DISILLUSIONED” by Vijay Likhite

DISILLUSIONED The eastern sky was getting a little bright. The birds had started chirping. He moved his leg. But it pained him so severely that he went back into the same position. The previous day, he was flogged so much as he had taken a few minutes extra to crush the coconut to get the decided quantity of the oil. His body was in extreme pain. He heard the melodious call of the fan-tailed flycatcher. From inside his 10’ X 5’ completely closed room, he could imagine a free to fly, small bird, hopping from one place to another, singing musi...

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“VAGHYA” by Vijay Likhite

VAGHYA Ranjit Singh was the landlord of Bandhan Garh, every resident was scared of. He owned a palatial bungalow and most of the land in the entire area. After the death of his two wives, he was living all alone in the vast bungalow. He kept a Doberman, named Vaghya for company.  The caretaker of the house, Prem Nath, a middle-aged man, was looking after Ranjit Singh since Ranjit Singh lost his mother in his childhood. His father was good natured but always was lost in drinking, day and night. Prem Nath tried to raise Ranjit Singh as ...

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“THE DREAM OF DEATH” by Vijay Likhite

Submitted to Contest #186

THE DREAM OF DEATH I was in Delhi working for an MNC. One evening I met Amresh shopping in the market. We decided to have dinner together. After dinner, we started discussing various matters. “ Amresh, do you know? I can predict the death of a person?” I said. "Come on. What nonsense! “ Amresh slighted me. “Really yaar. If I look into the eyes of the person, I can tell when he is going to die.” I said confidently. “Okay. Look into my eyes and tell me about my death.” “No jokes. Why should we try out this unholy power that I have got?” “No,...

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“THROW OF DICE” by Vijay Likhite

Submitted to Contest #180

THE THROW OF THE DICE Satish shut down the operating system, closed the notebook, and went for lunch. “Why do you take so much time to come when you are called? After the food is arranged on the table, it gets cold by the time you start eating. What is the use of serving hot food?” mother complained. “Aai, I wanted to complete writing one paragraph of my new story. If I break in between, the link is lost. And then it is very difficult to continue with the flow of the story.” “Oh! Great story writer. How many stories you have written so fa...

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“THE TRAIN TO CHANDANGARH” by Vijay Likhite

THE TRAIN TO CHANDANGARH The special, weekly tourist train to Chandangarh was about to leave Rampur station. The special gauge train had four coaches with seating arrangements and only one compartment with luxurious sofas accommodating only four passengers. The four seating coaches were full. The tickets to the luxurious coach were exorbitantly high and so this coach was usually run empty. But that day three seats were booked. One of the occupants Satish was on his couch and he had opened his storybook and was engrossed in reading it. The ...

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“HEREDITY” by Vijay Likhite

Submitted to Contest #165

HEREDITY                              Sumitra was very happy that she was now a grandmother. Her daughter-in-law Vidya had delivered a baby boy. She was unhappy that her husband Pradeep was not in this world to see his grandson. Her son Satish was extremely happy to get a son. The child, Abhimanyu was growing healthy. On his second birthday, Abhimanyu’s physical features were getting sharp. The child w...

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“THE BRIGHT STARS IN THE SKY” by Vijay Likhite

Submitted to Contest #164

THE BRIGHT STARS IN THE SKY - 2990 WORDS Mr.Ramnathan at the age of 75 was on the terrace of his house in a suburb of Mumbai. That was an evening of summer. The sun had just set. The twilight was making the entire atmosphere pleasantly golden. He looked above in the sky. A lot of stars were glittering. A few were bright enough to catch attention but many were twinkling with their might to get noticed. “What are you looking at Sir?” Satyavrata, a young boy, his student, broke the thinking chain. “Oh, Satyavrata! I was looking at t...

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“DESERT AT JAISALMER” by Vijay Likhite

DESERT OF JAISALMER In the desert of Jaisalmer, very few houses were holding their ground in the face of desert storms and a lack of source of water. But the winds had formed sand dunes which was a tourist’s attraction. One of houses was Ramlal’s. His wife Reshma used to fetch water from a well far away from there. She used to make two trips to the well every day.  Being near a path usually traced by the camel-riding travelers, Ramlal’s house had become a popular shelter in that area among the tourists as well as regular travellers. Ra...

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“RECONCILED” by Vijay Likhite

Satish now in his thirties was introspecting his life. He was in college when he was a teenager. His confidence was overflowing. He developed a 'could not care less ' attitude. He did not bother about his friends' feelings. Where other people approached him with an open heart, for a clean, neat friendship, Satish responded with such a hard attitude that their hearts cracked. They chose to take a different path. Nitin, a bright young boy from his class, found Satish as a good person to become a close friend. But Satish was involved in himself...

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“JEALOUSY” by Vijay Likhite

JEALOUSYPrakash studied at The School of Arts located in the town.Whatever he painted using a brush, was appreciated by everyone. Prakash used to receive accolades every time he held exhibitions in the city hall. Prakash had developed an ego. He started considering himself the finest painter, the greatest artist in the known world.One day, Nitin an artist from another area came to this town and had an exhibition of his paintings in the town hall.All the art lovers from the town attended it and they all were impressed by his creations. P...

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“LIAR” by Vijay Likhite

LIAR Prakash was a little tense. He was awaiting the results of Inter-Science examination which was going to decide his entry into the field of medicines. He had always nurtured dreams of being a doctor. He needed a minimum of 60% marks to secure admission to a medical college. And the results were declared. A few of his friends had got over 60% marks. But he could not locate his seat number in the entire result sheet. He checked the results repeatedly. But he could not find his number. It was confirmed that he had failed. All his dreams to...

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“MIRACLE” by Vijay Likhite

MIRACLE Kanchibhai had entered the town three days ago with his wife and his 3-year-old child. He was desperately looking for a job. He had left his village as his meager income there was not sufficient to feed the additional mouth of his son. Somebody suggested he go to Bhavnagar as many jobs would be waiting there for the working person. With the dream of getting a job as soon as he reached the dream town, he was looking into every job opportunity that he came across. Sincere that he was, he believed in hard work to earn the living. But no...

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“BLOSSOMDROP IN THE SKY” by Vijay Likhite

BLOSSOM DROP IN THE SKY SIXTEENTH-CENTURY        That was a summer evening. It was getting dark. Some time had elapsed after the setting of the sun. The sky was full of twinkling objects. Abhijeet finished his dinner and came out of the house. He looked up and as usual, was amazed by the glittering little spots in the sky. What must that be? He was lost in thoughts. His father came out and found Abhijeet engrossed looking at the skies. “What are you thinking my child?” “What are those sparkling litt...

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“JIVLAG - THE ROBOT” by Vijay Likhite

JIVLAG – THE ROBOT “This is Jivlag (Dear). The new member of our family. Satish & Seema, this is your brother. Treat him like your sibling and you will find him lovable. He will assist you in all the matters where you need help. So welcome Jivlag.” Saying this, Dhananjay put down the small, three feet tall robot. “Welcome Jivlag to our Pradhan family.” Satish, a twenty-year-old boy extended his hand. Jivlag, with a sparkle in his eyes, shook hands with Satish. “Welcome Bhau (brother) to our family.” Teenaged Seema shook hands wit...

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