The Dream Date and Other Short Stories is a book of fiction compromising stories of myriad moods like plain romantic, science-fiction, light-comedy, character-oriented, abstract, thriller, suspense and horror.

Through this book, you will enter the lives of a forty-something man going on his first date in ‘The Dream Date’, a simple clerk participating in ‘Kam Banega Crorepatr, a family where all the members are consciously or subconsciously playing the game hide-and-seek in ‘The Game We All Play’, a talented classical singer Panditji losing his creativity due to personal problems in the ‘The Unburdened Voice’, a Physics-scientist committing an impossible to understand murder in full public view in ‘The Black Revenge’, a man offering a ride to a lone girl in distress in ‘The Silent Night, a 17th century widow forced to become a Sati in ‘Sati – The Real Wife’, a cook tormented by the differences in smells in her life in `The Aromas of Disparity’, a high-profile Cabinet Minister getting lost in the jungles of Chandrapur only to gain rare insight on life and his identity in ‘The Lost Identity’, a lady living all alone with ghosts in ‘Trapped With Ghosts.

A plain Cook, a powerful Cabinet-Minister, a famous Singer, a nude Statue, a Pick-up girl, a lonely Divorcee, a revengeful Widow, a dream Date, a dominating Colonel, a simpleton Clerk, a brilliant Murderer, a miserable Sati, a tormented Daughter, a Joint Family and a pair of Ghosts all walk through this book offering a wide gamut of emotions both high and low, noble and treacherous, flirtatious and honest, brilliance and misery, power and powerlessness, loneliness and revenge, secrecy and simplicity, horror and hilarious.