DesiPundit

Vinod, a young writer, shares a short story of his that was published sometime back in Epic India. The story revolves around Rohan, a ten year old boy who is spending his vacation at his grandparents’ place in Kerala.

‘How long did you hold your breath?’ Susan auntie asked him. Rohan didn’t realise that he had been observed. He was silent, wondering whether he ought to inflate the number of seconds he had been underwater. ‘Thirty,’ he said. ‘Why don’t you both dunk your heads underwater? I’ll count. Let’s see who holds out the longest.