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Monthly Archives: November, 2017

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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Book-Reviews

A Foreword by Roderick Craig Low, UK to Serpentine Blues by Dr. Sigma

When I was invited to write this Foreword, I was reminded of the observations of Thomas Gray (1716 – 1771) on the authenticity of...
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Fiction

Washed Away – Debasis Tripathy, Bengaluru

At a time when my corporate career spanning three long decades was going nowhere and I’d lost interest in city life, I felt the...
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Articles

The absurd is everywhere: Gender Theory, Sexuality and Existence – Gopi Shankar, Madurai

Gender theory refers to contemporary investigations of what it means to “have” or “act” a particular gender. As described above, there is no fast...
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Fiction

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...