Handpicked: A Collection of Short Stories Based on Bits and Pieces of Our Own Lives

by Sandip Ray

Emotions are often implicit, hence, imperceptible. With a bit of digging, we can have a look of the surface of the hitherto undiscovered part of the iceberg, that floats silently. Everyday we meet hundreds of people, with myriad expressions exchanged without our conscious decisions. We face millions of events, with exceptional messages hidden in them. But to an average eye, they are commonplace and mundane. For me, they are overload of revealations. It seems like watching many movies one by one happening in real in front of you. The only ticket you have to buy is to have an eye and an open snesorium. Rest will automatically flow.
Through this collection of five totally unrelated incidents, that I came across in the past, I have presented a starter menu of what is to come in near future - the grand main course. When I was facing the events at real time, at that very point I knew, this, I will have to write down someday.
Today, is THE day.
Let us enjoy it, and introspect into our own lives, whether we have faced similar or dissimilar situations and neglected them as commonplace.
It does not matter whether we did so or not; because I will strive to serve such platters very soon for you.
Thank you.

41 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 7, 2022

About the author

Sandip Ray (Bangla: সন্দীপ রায়) is a film director living in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is the only son of the noted Bengali director Satyajit Ray and Bijoya Ray.