Rakesh Agarwal pens a short story on the changing landscapes and the evolving definitions of love in the historical town of Varanasi. Look, love-jihad,” Shantanu said as we ventured out of the historical premises of Sarnath. The world-famous ruins were
Devjani Bodepudi crafts a plethora of emotions running through the mindscape of an ideal housewife. I worry about my son. He’s young, impressionable and naive in so many things. I don’t like the way his friends talk around him. The
A short story from Piazza Bangladesh by Neeman Sobhan. Barely twenty-one years old, Cheeni was far too young to be a grandmother, a Naani. Yet in our family that was what we cousins had been taught to call her. Cheeni
Soumabrata Chatterjee reviews Anurag Kashyap’s new film Ugly … “And universal darkness buries all …” This line from Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad came to my mind once I finished watching Anurag Kashyap’s new film Ugly. Earlier this year, Mardaani dealt
A Short story by Somnath Batabyal. Shantum loved the September mornings in Kolkata. He always preferred to call the city that. Even before the official name change, ‘Calcutta’ never really appealed to Shantum. The city brought out his “bangaliana” his
The jingle announcing the morning news emanated from the radio in the teashop. Though the shop was at the entrance of the colony, the owner kept the volume high enough to pierce through the walls of all houses in the
In the spirit of magic realism here is Devjani Bodepudi’s short story .. I walk into the room and the air is crisp. It’s not the air of inside. I see it then, the open window. It explains the cold,
Monidipa Mondal pens a psychological tale exploring the underlying fissures of a family .. The boy always writes about his mother. It eats away at Rudrani’s heart as she fidgets around the house, counting the hours for Anjan to come
Nabina Das takes us through a different tunnel of “Alice in Wonderland”. When Alice got out of the rabbit hole, she found the little big bush town to be quiet and uneventful as ever. Hushed voices, indolence and early dinners.
Recently two innocent civilians were killed and two others were injured in Kashmir when the Indian Army fired on them. Basharat Ali writes a fictional, but emotional piece, on the rampant killings in Kashmir. My friend, did the news of