by Muhsina. K. Ismail The sky was huddled with greyish white clouds. Bright yellow sunlight was prickling Thamanna’s eyes. She drew the curtain blinds. Still, patches of yellow light appeared on a pillow, on the plastic foldable bookshelf, and on the yellow board printed with fruits and animals fitted on […]
Fiction
The Office Election
by Arya Bhandare “Well my dear teammates, today is a beautiful day!”, Namita Mehta smiled at her sales team. I’m going to finish assessing your sales from yesterday and I hope each one of you has a margin to offer!” A Beautiful Indian woman of Kashmiri descent, With wide, liquid […]
Metopia
by Aneeta Sundararaj Malaysia is supposed to uphold democratic principles.… Even though Islam is Malaysia’s official religion, this does not make Malaysia a theocracy. That is a slippery slope that we must not descend, for it poses an existential threat to the original concept of Malaysia. … Democracy also involves […]
A One Jaggery
by Pathik Mitra “Date palm trees are like female bodies. It’s very sensitive to touch. The apt touch of the sickle in the correct spot will make an old dry tree flood sweet juice” The old man giggled after cracking his nasty joke. His name is Madhav and he is […]
Some Time Before Dusk
by Rehan Sheikh Ali was the servant’s son. When my parents used to sail away for their work, he would be at my service. An honest, reverent, and dutiful young boy, Ali came from the Muslim slum nearby. He would play with me, feed me, clean the house, spend time […]
The Relationship
by Deepanshu Srivastava Amit Deshmukh and Girija Shinde were schoolmates in a public school in Colaba, Mumbai during the year 2010. When they grew up Girija took up the job of an executive in an ad agency in Colaba while Amit topped the MBA course at Mumbai University and was […]
Trust
by Satyarth Pandita It was dark outside. Nothing was visible, not even the lofty barren mountains that surrounded our village- a remote and isolated one. Outside the rain was falling. The chilly gusts of wind with the taste of rain had well-nigh depeopled the paths that connected the houses dotting […]
Passengers
by Archit Joshi The ferry bobbed on the calm water, humble and patient. The water was calm because there was no tension. There was no tension because there was clarity. There was clarity because the future hinged on merely two possibilities. Either the ferry would go towards the mist or […]
The Boy with Rainbow Eyes/Eyes Rainbow with Girl The
by Nayan Sayed Jibon At noon, suddenly, the April sky darkened and the concrete jungle of Hazaribagh had turned neuter gray as far as the eye could see. A thirsty van puller in a narrow lane, who was pulling a heavier load of rotten skulls, legs, and tails than he […]
Brown Cake Occupied in My Mental Stage
by Maid Corbic “What’s that far out there?” the father echoed aloud, asking about the child. Spring day was never really closer, while the love of that day was increasingly turning into a trough of hatred and honor without shame and moral arrival. That day is still remembered clearly and […]