Yearly Archives: 2013

Poetry

Night at Balasore – Kousik Adhikari

The night at her fashion-less wedding On the nude streets of Balasore, Beggars hunting sleep After day’s wrecks, Trees luckless at their Mid-widow life, yearns For a rainy day’s dance- Men...

IR - August 16, 2013

Fiction

The Thing About Water – Ananya Sarkar, West Bengal

Each time Ramu turned on the tap and saw the water gushing forth--- spontaneous, clear, sparkling---he couldn’t restrain from putting his hands in the...

IR - June 9, 2013

Articles

Why Should education be commercialised – Preethi Padmanabhan, Tamilnadu

Why should education be commercialised? Is it a necessity? Or has it become a commodity? A custom–aka-fashion has become the quantisation of education today which...

IR - June 6, 2013

Poetry

Remembering the end – Madhuchhanda Karmakar, West Bengal

Forgetting to remember the end fragmentary sentences clings on its amorphous presence. Words drowns in the swirls of the ink swallowing letters as it sinks Facades blot. I return back from all the...

IR - June 6, 2013

Fiction

The Sapience of a Healer – Dr. Mohsin Bin Mushtaq

Flurry showers of snow were peacefully carpeting the entire city of Srinagar. An uneasy calm overthrew the buzzing of summer lutes in our north-most...

IR - March 7, 2013

Poetry

Ode to Motherland – Renjith V. Sathyan, Thiruvananthapuram

Never a poet, a lover of beauty. Nor a singer, a devotee of music. Words burst out from my heart. Music whistles from my mind. Now I am...

IR - March 6, 2013

Poetry

To Nissim Ezekiel – Salin Gopinathan, Kollam

An alarmed squirrel barked and swished of his tail alerting the crows on the twigs of the trees. A woman screamed and ran to and fro. Neighbors and...

IR - February 28, 2013

Poetry