Fiction & Poetry

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...

Wild was the night Intermittent lightning and sporadic thunder Inconsolable rain and devastating wind Hunt was for a refuge, safe and assured. You were right there In the corner, in...

"Blame it on the pale blue aerogramme," Subrat said as he readied to board the Aeroflot flight to London at Calcutta. He was not alone. With him were his wife...

I carry in me Your ineffable smile When the heart takes off On the lightening sky A dead branch greening Or a flighting bird. The twinkle in your eyes Lights...

If only he had read the signs, if only he had made that telephone call that night, things might have turned out differently. But he had failed to read the...

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...

Half Circle Full Circle Half Circle A Half Circle Full Circle Right-angle A He had first heard the magic formula for the magical drink in the home of his Asansol-based...

Waves touch the sombre shore sometimes sober fierce at times a relentless journey of fathomless oceans! They speak in silence few understand their language and the saga of despondence!! Desire...

The other day at school their fifth class English Sir was giving a lesson on anger. He recited a verse before writing it down on the blackboard. Anger is an...

The hill never thought  It will happen. On a knoll, deserted and desolate,  There will ever be mist and fog.   All along The hill was called horrid, muddled and...