Homeless
Here’s a powerful and intense women-centric protest poem by Meenakshi, in Different Truths. I have always been a cuckoo bird Raising, egging my being in other’s nests Always in...
A Love Affair that Became a Story
Pankajam reviews In the Flickering of an Eye, a novel by Neelam Saxena Chandra, which is a love story between two people of the same gotra. The village panchayat...
My Journey through Fashion
We’re all storytellers, whether we think of ourselves that way or not. Shameena believes that the clothes have power over our mind! The clothes we wear can capture memories and...
Folklore: Lord Jagannath offered Rasagullas to Lakshmi to appease her!
The romantic legend that one hears in Odisha is that the Goddess Lakshmi was irked with her husband as he went off for a nine-day trip without her consent. She...
Romancing the Celestial Bodies and Strawberry Fragrance
Here are two literary works by Sehar, a poem and a short story, woven around the theme of the silent solitude. In Romancing the Celestial Bodies, she delves into the...
A Haircut
In a series of flash forwards and flashbacks, Ritamvara, following the stream of consciousness legacy, talking about a haircut. And through it, she dwells on the complexity of relationships and associations....