by Summiaya Nilofer Kichloo I hope you somehow, right now, get this feeling that your better-half is writing something for you. Maybe, a sweet sensation in your heart. I hope you are doing okay in life. Even if you aren’t, I hope things go alright for you soon. I’m sorry […]
Fiction
Unfurl
by Mehreen Ahmed This morning, Alisha Alam drew the curtains apart in her bedroom. She gazed at a grey sky. The clouds hadn’t melted. Anytime now, but this greyness gave her a thrill. She smiled and opened the window to smell pithy air from her orchard full of ripened mangoes. […]
The Voices in her Head
by Chandrika R Krishnan The whimper began. “Oh, no..please no. God, I will break coconut as an offering to you. Let her sleep. I need some rest. God, please.” She tried to make a pact with God is the only style she knew, the ever- prevalent barter system. It made […]
The Taxes Were Paid
by Aleena Kuriakose The evanescent red-orangey hues of the sky were beginning to morph into an inky night as the Sun started to set. It was monsoon season and the clouds moaned, flooding the land beneath them with their tears. All was silent and tranquil besides the heavy downpour and […]
Tomiko Takes the Train
by Steve Carr Tomiko’s joints ached, especially her knees. She gingerly raised the hem of her kimono and stared at them for several moments as if seeing them for the first time. Nothing seemed to ever make them feel better for very long. Acupuncture, hot baths, daily swims, herbal teas, […]
Blue Lantern Memories
by Ayushi Chandra Along a sunlit lane down the Formosa Street lived a girl in the house of Blue lantern, where beauty hushed down in slow crescendoes and the dappling red light over her face showed no hint of pain but numbness of ages old. She was quiet not in […]
The Hotel!
by Swarnasankha Acharjee Ranojoy Sen is the first man who published my work in his magazine. Off late, I was getting popular through the columns of his magazine. Beside my books, I kept writing stories for his magazine. I was struggling to come up with a new story for quite […]
The Debt
by Steve Carr Several macaques scurried across the wires that stretched above the street as the motorized rickshaw stopped abruptly, halted by the traffic jam ahead of it. The driver slammed his hand down hard several times on the horn, as from behind his seat, Arjun pounded on the back […]
The Last Sampan
by Steve Carr The gentle waves of the Yellow River tapped against the sides of Wang Wei’s sampan, producing shallow reverberations, like fingers drumming arrhythmically on the stretched animal skin of a tanguu drum. Along the docks that lined the river banks of Zhengzhou, the tiny white lights hanging from […]
Change This Topic
by Ramendra Singh Next evening Shivangi was flying to the U.S. for a post-graduate course in mental health at the Washington State University. She had decided to spend her last night in India with her friends, nearly all of them, from school, from college, from the street theatre group she […]