Half Girlfriend

Piyush to translate what I had said. ‘That’s a good reason,’ Prof. Pereira said once Piyush was done. ‘But now you are in Delhi. ...

Gupta. ‘Compared to the rest of India.’ ‘India is pretty backward,’ I said. ‘One of the poorest nations in the world.’ ‘Sure. Bu ...

‘I’ll do my best, sir.’ ...

2 If she weren’t tall I wouldn’t have noticed her. It is funny how her height shaped my life. If she had been four inches shorte ...

passed the ball. The crowd tittered. Well, the men did. The wisecrack distracted R for a moment, but she resumed her game as if ...

Destiny, however, had other plans. For why else, in the seventh minute of the first half, would the college team captain overthr ...

the next half. As her team meeting ended, she wiped her face and neck with a towel. I couldn’t take my eyes off her. I forgot I ...

catch what I had said later? Did it mean she didn’t understand what I had' said? Or did she mean she actually wanted to catch me ...

even Hindi. He meant: will you play like this? Is it a trial or a joke? I regretted knowing him. ‘I...I...’ Then R interrupted. ...

I wanted to continue talking to her. I wanted to know her full name and her native place. That is how we introduce ourselves in ...

‘Yeah. But if they do, then see you. Else, bye.’ She walked away. I realized I didn’t even know her full name. As she became mor ...

3 'Hey,’ she said. Her perky voice startled me; I had been scanning the college noticeboard. I turned around. I had prayed for t ...

anymore. I wanted to fit into my new college. ‘English,’ she said.‘Here, see, that’s my name.' Riya Somani, English (Hons), it s ...

‘You made friends here?’ she said. ‘Not really,’ I said. ‘You?’ ‘I have some classmates from school in Stephen’s. Plus, I am fro ...

We had played a half-court game; I defeated her 20-9. ‘I’m hopeless,’ she said. She took a sip from her water bottle. She wore a ...

‘What do your parents do?’ I said. A boy should make more interesting conversation with a girl. But a loser like me had little e ...

iuinraon, the oldest princely state in British India. When India became independent, the government took away our family estate ...

inside me, ‘Did I, a commoner, just play basketball with the Raja Sahib of Dumraon?' she said and burst into laughter, ‘I should ...

‘They're ditzy. Forget them,' she said 'Ditzy?' 'Silly and stupid, Anyway, I better leave too. My driver should be here.' We wal ...

4 Three months later 'Did you just put your hand on mine?’she whispered, but loud enough for people around us in the movie theat ...