Sonal Singh

An author, storyteller, and full-time observer of life’s glorious absurdities. I write humour-laced stories where chaos wears fluffy fur, emotions arrive uninvited, and middle-class Indian households become ecosystems of drama, love, and unsolicited advice. Armed with sarcasm, caffeine, and alarming emotional attachment to stray creatures, I believe compassion is less of a virtue and more of a lifestyle disorder. One that I embrace. When I’m not writing, I’m usually busy running a full-time HR consultancy business, rescuing animals, or trying to maintain dignity while being emotionally manipulated by my pets. Through my literary work, I try to blend humour with heart, celebrating the messy coexistence of humans and non-humans in modern urban India.

I don’t know

I wonder what you know, what you do know for your answer to everything that I ask is always, “I don’t know. You decide.” When I ask what you’d like for dinner you say, “I don’t know. anything.” Now this anything does not grow on trees so it’s neither a …

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Mother Earth

Shackled in chains, I have lived a life of bondage. I have been bound to the children I bore, my seed. I have despaired at what has become of them? And yet, I had no choice but to be a mute spectator. For I could not intervene, even if I …

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What does hope look like?

Have you ever sat in the calm of the morning and taken in a sunrise? Have you ever hummed a Melody that lifted your spirits right up? Have you ever, in moments of despair, felt a gentle touch, a soft pat? Have you ever, when you had lost faith, felt …

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Dance of the rain

The rain did a dance yesterday at night, A pitter-patter routine; a splash and splatter. It sieved through the lush foliage of the trees & fell rhythmically down, spinning its magic.   I sat and listened to the orchestral sounds. Yes! God conducted a magnificent concert. Nature sang to the …

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Song of the Earth

Have you ever cocked an ear to listen to the song of the earth? Surprised? Well don’t be for the Earth has music for those who listen. She speaks, she tries to converse, if only you would not hasten. So, Sit a while amid nature and reboot, be one with …

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No warning!

His days became my battle, His nights became my war I held his hand throughout as he tried to leave, go far. Lovingly I held on to him. I was unwilling to let him go. My moist eyes implored. Yet, no emotion did he show.   It happened without warning. …

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The dream I woke up to

For as far as my eye could see, cerulean waters lapped Under a clear azure sky filled with a few cottony puffs of clouds. The coral white sand, soft and beguiling like a nymph’s touch, Was littered with shells of all sizes, shapes and colors.   My eyes opened to …

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Our summer romance

From across the road, our eyes met that summer. We both took the same bus. She took it to work and I took it back from work. Our timings on and off the bus were the only thing that coincided. That and our eyes which coincidentally met as she boarded …

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Just my day!

Alarm doesn’t go off, I’m late for work. The maid absconds, my cabwala’s a jerk. The lift malfunctions, I have to walk up 7 floors. Son’s teacher calls, “Ma’am, come grace our doors.” Damn! I say and walk 7 floors down again. My heel breaks, I get an ankle sprain. …

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Solitude

Solitude is like fine sugar spun like floss on a stick That can sweeten your taste buds & satiate a craving. Solitude is like silence wrapped in the night’s veil That can soothe you and lull you to sleep like a lullaby.   Solitude is a yearning that you feel …

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