Arati Kadav

A newly wed finds herself in an overcooked and tasteless happily ever-after laced with patriarchal traditions.

Aboard a spaceship where souls of the deceased are readied for reincarnation, a lone crew member's rigid existence is disrupted by a spry new assistant.

Time Machine is a story of a young boy who makes the worlds first time machine, but is unable to hold onto his childhood or protect his family from the ravages of time. The story deals with the themes of nostalgia, first love, and of course, time travel.

55 Km/sec is a love story set on the last day of planet Earth. A cataclysmic event has occurred, life as we knew it is ending, and people have retreated into their shells as they wait for the end of the world. Two large rocks are about to crash into each other and compared to that human life in all its complexity seems so fragile and pointless. Not knowing what’s coming next, people repeat their habits from the before-times, go to the grocery store, pack their bags like they are going somewhere, try to find what shelter and safety they can, say their goodbyes and begin the countdown to the end.

An accident causes a spaceship to explode and an astronaut tumbles out of it.