Fiction & Poetry

Drink, my friend, drink. A sip, after a sip, after a sip Whiff the aroma, savour the sting. Drink to the swing of the seas To the calypso of the...

I am not a saint Don't make one of me. It wasn't all sacrifice and humility and truth. I didn't start out to Appropriate the forgotten. It was not till...

Know Thou we are all souls, we are the eternal; Veda points to the path of righteousness in action and wisdom ; Great is our cultural legacy and great is...

The doors: Doors at the front, Doors at the back, Doors above doors, Doors next to the doors. Doors in the village, Doors by the lanes, Doors in shopping malls...

Here I hear, now and then thumping and dancing of ghosts of the war field soldiers who died of stress and fear running around unseen fires of up till unfulfilled...

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...

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 Suddenly. The...

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;...

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...

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...