Allwyn's Blog- The Journey

The Mask and the Lip Gloss Usha likes bright lip gloss and liners. Unfortunately she is born in an ultra conservative family where make-up is looked upon and dealt with. So even wearing a dull lip gloss was a distant dream. Government made it mandatory to wear face mask and Usha's office too made mask compulsory. All her collogues were cursing the COVID-19 second wave. Usha was smiling under her mask with a bright red lip gloss and liner.  Democracy and Election Rajkumar and his wife are daily wagers in construction industry. Due to election, works were withheld for a week. Rajkumar managed his needs with whatever little supplies he had; but on the day of election his family was literally starving. Forcefully he went out to look for any petty work, where he was contacted by a party worker to vote for them & offered a packet of briyani. He bargained for four packets. His family of four had briyani that day.   Does it really matter... Ram, Vijay and Baskar are school friends...

On a rainy day a young women was walking up and down the corridor biting her pendant and was getting restless with every bike passing by.. It seems she is waiting for someone and was growing anxious every moment...   Varsha and Siddharth were recently married and had moved to Chennai. They live in first floor, single bedroom house known as the Line house or Row house in a typical Chennai neighborhood. It has 5 houses in the first floor all in row and had verandah or corridor common for all the houses. It has been a month since they moved in. Varsha got well along with her neighbours and developed a bond with them. Siddharth works for an MNC which is around 30min bike ride from home. Our hero have fixed working hours and he would be back home every day sharp at 7pm.Today it’s already 7:30pm and our hero Siddharth didn’t reach home yet and not answering any calls. Siddharth never came late which started to bother Varsha. Varsha was the young women, wanderin...