Fiction & Poetry

Glowworms flash In the remote spider webs Gathering an unknown emotion Waiting to be acknowledged.Quivering across the lanes They rush to the road Full of upheavals Rain…

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

Plopped out of your pocketSteely and shiny, a solitary key.With a chuckle and a sigh,Through the corner of your eyeYou murmured, “Ah! My key.”In our last…

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

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 in the crevices of the…

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 you sing everyday morning and…

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 willingly became a party to an act of vendetta…

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

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 the haat, who shoved his thick fingers in the…

Like previous evenings, that evening too Subrat and his cousin repeated the ritual of one last chat under the electricity pole that stood a few feet into the mouth of the concrete road which…