Fiction & Poetry

Thank God, it’s the last day/ Of my stay in Kabul today/ Seven months of this hell lived/ Will haunt me for a lifetime/ Scarred by sleepless nights/ Listening to...

Do(e) Re Me Fa(r) So La Ti.... Every time Subrat thought about the cult song from The Sound of Music, he stopped short at ‘So’. “How does ‘a needle pulling...

Deserting me alone you left …and you left, I am sinking and sinking With every passing moment In fathomless mid-ocean.   No help around…day by day Hope shrinks, In deep...

This book of love poems is not mine Page 57 line 15 still blames me for abandoning my Desire for you in favour of unattainable love The feather marking the...

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

Even if you come back The whirlpool of emotions amidst the whims Won't settle down. The unsettledness has clung to life To the core Grief has no rescue now I...

The conversation between the head and the heart, To note, Is a thrill. It’s flesh, heat and touch; It’s a hunger, periodic yet erratic; It’s spasmodic, Says the head. It’s...

The magic of numbers, the abstractions Lowest Common Multiples, the Greatest Common Factors and reasoning You say, “I will ask a question before you kick the ball up; Answer me...

Agreed, that everything was just my dream. I had wanted that all the beautiful girls in the world should understand poetry; That the letters of mothers be auctioned for millions...

Amid sweat and pant Under blinding lights, and blazing dissonance Hip swung, chest twisted Feet tapped, hands twirled Our last dance. As it began Love charred, lust baked Bones broke,...