Fiction & Poetry

Sunday Poem: Chandipur

The tide comes to wipe the fishy smell and stale footprints off the sands on shore. Come, kids ! And…

August 22, 2021

Last Flight From Kabul…

Thank God, it’s the last day/ Of my stay in Kabul today/ Seven months of this hell lived/ Will haunt…

August 17, 2021

Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti

Do(e) Re Me Fa(r) So La Ti.... Every time Subrat thought about the cult song from The Sound of Music,…

August 16, 2021

Sunday Poem: Darling

Deserting me alone you left …and you left, I am sinking and sinking With every passing moment In fathomless mid-ocean.…

August 15, 2021

Sunday Poem: Inset

This book of love poems is not mine Page 57 line 15 still blames me for abandoning my Desire for…

August 8, 2021

Ode To Konark: Erotica Etched In Stones

I wonder at those skilled hands/ That had sculpted these stones/ Were they as passionate in art/ As the sunrays…

July 25, 2021

Sunday Poem: If You Come Back…

Even if you come back The whirlpool of emotions amidst the whims Won't settle down. The unsettledness has clung to…

July 11, 2021

Sunday Poem: Conversation

The conversation between the head and the heart, To note, Is a thrill. It’s flesh, heat and touch; It’s a…

July 4, 2021

Math Teacher

The magic of numbers, the abstractions Lowest Common Multiples, the Greatest Common Factors and reasoning You say, “I will ask…

June 13, 2021

The Black Sheep

Agreed, that everything was just my dream. I had wanted that all the beautiful girls in the world should understand…

May 23, 2021