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Thenammai Lakshmanan
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சோகி சிவா - 1

1 ரெ ட் ஆக்ஸைட் தடவிய பத்தியில் அமர்ந்து வெள்ளைச்சீலையின் முந்தானைக்குள் இடது கையால் ருத்ராட்சத்தைப் பிடித்து வலதுகையால் உருட்டி எண்ணியப.....

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Tomichan Matheikal
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Hero

At 65, Francis had begun to measure his life in absences. Like the promotion that never came. The business he never started. The many betrayals of people whom he had trusted. He sat every evening on the narrow veranda of his modest home, watching the road gather dust and dissolve into dusk. Somewhere, in another version of life, he told himself, he would have been a man people spoke about differently: with admiration, perhaps even a touch of envy. In reality, ho.....

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Tomichan Matheikal
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The Weight of the Altar

“Oh, God! I feel like a fraud.” Father Thomas complained to the crucifix behind the altar in the parish church. Jesus didn’t seem particularly concerned. Nothing changed in His weary face that lay inclined and dead on His right shoulder. Father Thomas was nearing the age of fifty when he started feeling that his entire life as a priest amounted to nothing of any significance. Earlier, at least the church used to be full with the faithful.....

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