Goddess Lakshmi Bless my Home!
Anumita takes a trip down memory lane and recalls the Lokhi (Lakshmi) puja at her Kolkata home. She tells us how the Goddess is a part of everyday discourse...
At Fifty Three
Here’s a powerful poem by Smita, a personal prayer in defiance. Dear God, Idol of stone, Shaped like a phallus. And then, more often than not, ...
The ‘Un-Sacred’ Soil
Tariq MuhammadTariq Muhammad is a multilingual poet from Kolkata, India. He now resides in the United States. He specialises in romantic poetry. At home in English, Urdu and Hindi,...
Lilywhite Kamal Paints Lotus Rajini Saffron
Kamal is not sure if Rajini is saffron but he is sure enough that he probably isn’t. With ‘saffron’ Kamal is conveying that Rajini if he is saffron, must...
…And I Wept for Vinod Khanna, my Teenage Crush!
The images of Vinod Khanna haunted Samina throughout the day and by the end of the day, she felt a heart-wrenching pain. It was unbearable and she found tears...
An Open Letter of a Sex Worker to Goddess Durga
Goddess Durga’s idol made during Durga Puja is incomplete without the soil from the house of a sex worker. The belief is that the soil should be begged for...