Jayshree Misra Tripathi

Childhood Homecomings, Grandparents and warm embraces, sweet delicacies to relish, aromatic fragrances that assailed the senses. Flickering diyas at eventide, from the puja room on…

Eyes met Over champagne flutes spilling over suppressed smiles. Eyes danced mischief blues flickering beyond the hallway Morse code, undefined. Eyes…

Eternal Flame Symbol of Hope, Fearless cosmic force Dancing in the wind With increasing intensity Blazing in fury untold, Crackling,…

Boredom breeds disdain for mindless chatter. I seek a diversion, adopt tactical manoeuvres, glide past the maddening soiree. Now, smiling softly, eyes a -twinkle,…

No, I have no words for YOU. thirteen months, no longer beside me. singed my soul, cheated me out of unresolved debates on Mankind, its cruelty, its joys. Cheated me of many…

Will you miss me when I am gone? The soft curve of my wrinkled cheek, My fragrance at dawn? Will you recall all the moments Of our family, Travel, laughter and song, Listening to…

Its cloudy Maybe the rains will come. Time stands still as I recall the furrows upon your forehead. Suddenly you smile - and the wind whistles through pine trees, as a lotus blooms in…

The title of this anthology, the third in a tetralogy, a sequel to The Palette (published in 1999) and The Easel (2015), is apt, for we are introduced to 22 authors. It cannot be classified…

Note Introducing “Letters to Jorina” Though a prolific writer, the fictional output of Ganeswar Mishra (1942-2015) is not large. Up until a short time before his death, he was known to…