Samalkot Station and Other Stories is a tender, lyrical collection where prose dances with poetry, and the everyday shimmers with memory, magic, and meaning. Sindhoor Varkoor invites readers into intimate worlds-ancestral homes, forgotten stations, sacred courtyards, chance encounters-where nostalgia breathes alongside quiet revelations. Each story flows like a fragment of life-sometimes wistful, sometimes poignant-culminating in delicate poems that linger long after the page is turned. Enhanced by Viswaprasad Raju's evocative sketches, this is a book to savour slowly, like a familiar song you return to for comfort.