Hidden Arithmetic
Life always adds up — eventually
Life rarely announces its calculations.
In Hidden Arithmetic, eight short stories trace the quiet mathematics beneath ordinary lives—the unseen additions and subtractions that shape destinies long before outcomes become visible. A moment of trust, a principle held too rigidly, a kindness that conceals truth, a success built on invisible sacrifice—each decision enters a ledger no one is keeping, until life balances it on its own terms.
Set across homes, railway platforms, interview rooms, hospitals, and unfamiliar cities, these stories follow people who believe they are choosing wisely. Some are rewarded, some are undone, and others live on without ever realising what their lives have already cost—or claimed from others.
These are not stories of dramatic justice or moral certainty. They are stories of consequence. Of how belief becomes blindness, how love can miscalculate risk, how dignity resists humiliation, and how success does not always settle the accounts of those who paid for it.
Hidden Arithmetic does not promise answers or absolution. It asks the reader to notice the quiet totals accumulating beneath everyday choices—and to recognise that life, patient and unsentimental, always finishes its sums.
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Lucky Chicken with a 5th Toe
When a fragile chick with an unusual fifth toe falls from the sky, six-year-old Ishvar becomes its only hope. Armed with nothing but ₹10.50 and a fierce desire to help, he faces tough decisions, unexpected truths, and the weight of responsibility far bigger than himself.
A moving story about kindness, bravery, and the quiet miracles found in everyday life.
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