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Yearly Archives: 2017

Fiction

Quest for the Perfect brow – Narayani Das, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Simran’s phone rings. Without bothering to see who it is, she answers, “Yes, Ma”. Her mom without wasting time in inanities says, “What are you...
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The flaw – Thileepa Asokan, Tamilnadu

Little Vidoo panicked when he heard the loud hiss of the air-lock chamber that announced the arrival of his father. His father was home...
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Poetry

The broken string – Shefali SK, Karnataka

I will never forget, The moment when your heart beat, And mine kept beating. The moment when I realized that, A part of me is growing within...
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Poetry

Lilly – Sudipto Dolui, West Bengal

Sparkling white on the roadside May lit a face wide When see the road side flower May even gaze for an hour? The name of flower holds...
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Poetry

Endless Love – Arnab Kumar Roy, West Bengal

My love has found expression in countless forms, countless flames of candle… My dreams have grown as a flower in shade of your hand, Through the...
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Poetry

The Other Side – Dolat Ram, Rajasthan

If death is the end of life as many believe, then which is the door leading to the divine ? If fire is a burning hell on...
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Poetry

My grandmother is probably going to die – Aishwarya Shrivastav

Part 1 My grandmother is probably going to die I am about to lose history already less known They tell me she doesn't recognize faces But I want...
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Fiction

Perseverance – Lily Singh, Baroda

  It was the onset of spring. The birds chirped, bees hummed, flowers bloomed and the ambience was pink with love, and orange with bubbling...
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Fruit Punch

I should have asked her months ago. But I have been preoccupied with my family’s concerns. How will you protect your wife in that unknown place? What will you do if someone harms her? You have no experience in travel. You don’t even know Hindi. How will you get things done? Why can’t you go someplace nearby, like Munnar? But I had promised Agneta, and I couldn’t break it.
Poetry

Our Men are Learning

“Cut them some slack,our men are still learning.”“Don't be so harsh,our men are still learning.”Did you know thatthe learning...
Fiction

The Scavenger’s Song

An endless highway. A lone man, Ikbir Kaur, hesitantly walks along the dusty pavement aided by a mystical tinge of...

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Book-Reviews

Finding the Truth in Fiction: A tale of resistance against a never-ending state-imposed dystopia

A review of the book ‘The Half Mother’ by...
Book-Reviews

Reviewing ‘Obsession and Wild Pigeon’ by Ismat Chughtai

My interest in Ismat Chughtai developed when I first...