Isidora
Duska pays her tribute to one of 20 th century’s important woman writer, Isidora.* Fifty years, fifty summers, you have lain here, my Isidora, knitting moonlight in Topčider Cemetery,...
Have a Break!
We all need a break to beat the drudgery of life. We have breaks in schools, offices, factories, et al. Maya suggests that married couples need break too. Just be...
Brishti
The romanticism of torn petals hidden in song books is precious for a girl. Blue Eve captures its essential enigma. Pressed between pages that are read no more, Brishti still...
To Find my own Word
Duska tries to find her own word, her own voice, as all poets and writers do in this verse. Countless poets have already told ...
Do Gossips Matter?
Idle gossip and character assassination are perhaps the easiest things. But, do we ever realise its consequences. Subhajit asks a pertinent question in the short story. “Did you hear...
Lock and Key
A love poem composed as duet by two poets, Leepsha and Mahapatra. Fate changes It changes to give you back what you lost And what you – as you...
PMS Flays Govt., Protest Atrocities against Women
Women flayed the government for unleashing atrocities on them, in nearby Kaushambi district, in the name of cleaning Ganga. In five villages goons and police attack their dignity when they go...
There are People
Duska’s intense and evocative poem of many people around us. There are people you don’t have to talk to understand them. You don’t have to see them regularly send...
Discovery
Bruce addresses a pertinent social issue in the poem. Our enemy is faster Without doubts and Unencumbered by the cloth of ethics Without mercy Wearing skins of every race...
You Come
Duska sees the individual, the lover, in nature. She transcends the small self to seek truth in the greater self. You come seek shelter open your mouth but there’s...