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STORIES

PUDDLES
    SHIFANI REFFAI                                   

Shifani Reffai is a 23-year-old undergrad from Sri Lanka, who has a penchant for sticking her fingers in a lot of
pies: architecture, photography, journalism, illustration, literature, film,
and lately, playing the tabla. Clearly
this is because she has the attention
span of a goldfish. The love of her life
is however, writing. She is inspired
by travel and everyday incidents and
finds it a bit disgusting to write about
herself in the third person.

L

EGEND HAS IT that there are
ghosts that live in our reflections.

lived within the trick of a little light on a
surface of clear water.

Unbound by the restraints that
Time possesses over us mortals – the dead
live on, parallel to us, but in an alternate
unspace and untime, repeating, as though
in purgatory, their final acts, for eternity.
Yes, on an ordinary day you see your reflection in a puddle, but if you look closely, too
closely, for too long, you may see things that
happened long before you, at the very spot
on which you stand.

Paharganj teemed with hippies, young boys
selling