Ilaa, the tale of grit and change – My attempt at Times of India’s Write India Initiative

This was mysubmission to TOI’s Write India initiative, a short story competition taking place this year.Backed by a team of published authors, the process requiresthe participants to work on a certain prompt given by an author every month.

The prompt for this story (in the brown font below) was given by Amish Tripathi in the month of July 2015. My attempt could not make it to the top ones ( :( ). But of course, there were people who seemed to have worked hard on it for the whole month and I c...