Fiction & Poetry

My friend I have known you for so long, Probably the longest since I was born. You stay with me like my shadow, You are always there, at the edge of every horizon. Whatever may come…

I heard You're gone, In the stretched muffled breath of the night, In increasing pain, No forecasts, no warnings, No information, no preparation, Infected by the Corona virus…

I fell into a dream And awoke in it And I have been In the dream since. The world is mine The rivers and the mountains And the sentient trees; The fishes, birds and animals Talk to…

I said our village is better You said my eyes are small, I am a small village girl My dreams are small. I said adorn my hair with a ring of mogra flowers You said my expectations are…

Like they clear the sewers before rain comes I clear my thought before thought comes. The sky no more is blue in the city, clouds are no more black or white acres of playground are…

It has been a week of hard baking sun, and my petunias are resplendent with snow white flowers, delicate petals fluttering in a warm afternoon breeze. I sit beside them with a hot…

Your lips tinged With the shade of vermilion I liked best Stand devoid of colour. Your eyes speaking More than your lips Are gesticulating a smile I try to trace the faint…

Life for Odia poet Sujata Chaudhry has undergone a sea change following the nationwide lockdown, which was clamped to check the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. She lives in fear, worrying…

As a social activist, Namrata Chaddha is busy round the clock, throughout the year. She has to get involved and help the victims whenever there are cases of domestic violence, police…

Bhubaneswar: With the number of positive coronavirus cases climbing in the state and the nationwide lockdown very much in force, different organizations are thinking out of the box to try…