Fiction & Poetry

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 desires and gross…

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 of every horizon. Whatever may come…

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…

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; The fishes, birds and animals Talk to…

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 of mogra flowers You said my expectations are…

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 white acres of playground are…

It has been a week of hard baking sun, and my petunias are resplendent with snow white flowers, delicate petals fluttering in a warm afternoon breeze. I sit beside them with a hot…

Your lips tinged With the shade of vermilion I liked best Stand devoid of colour. Your eyes speaking More than your lips Are gesticulating a smile I try to trace the faint…

Life for Odia poet Sujata Chaudhry has undergone a sea change following the nationwide lockdown, which was clamped to check the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. She lives in fear, worrying…

As a social activist, Namrata Chaddha is busy round the clock, throughout the year. She has to get involved and help the victims whenever there are cases of domestic violence, police…