Literature

Farewell my friend Into the silent night Forever… Out of hearing Out of sight Beyond… Life leaves us all A beggar’s broken bowl But a liberated soul That takes flight...

A sturdy hard back with a themed front cover in glossy white splashed with a generous daub of green and with a completely green back, the first glimpse that “Secrets...

That was college time. And a fantasy-laden, violence-ridden time it was. Please don’t get me wrong. The violence was not so much out there in the street as it was...

Don’t call me a murderer; for the whole of my life, I have only loved. I have learnt the arts of loving from the hand that irrigates the gourds; I...

When I close my eyes and think of you your song echoes in my ears though days have passed by it is still fresh in my mind and heart. Unfailingly...

Published in 2020, Suparno Banerjee’s Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity provides a major breakthrough in studies in Indian Science Fiction (ISF), highlighting previously unexplored origins and historical developments....

Bhubaneswar: The 200th birth anniversary of Russian novelist Fyodor M. Dostoevsky was celebrated by Sukrut, the literary and cultural chapter of Bhubaneswar Club here. As Picasso is to modern art,...

If I were able to travel back in time to fix one thing, I would choose that night in Baripada forty years ago. It was on this night that I...

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

I was covered in a patchwork quilt of a sari inside the confines of my home. The one who dragged me away and made me stand in the middle of...