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Fiction and Poetry

“Words, words, words.”

Poetry

Dilli Meri Jaan

Brinda Gulati -
‘bhaiya, ek coke aur ek camel light’.
Flash Fiction

Friday

Tara Rao -
"It was simply imperative to understand the psychology of a man before roping him in and rendering him spent."
Flash Fiction

Lost and Found

Devika Goswami -
“She had everything she needed: a little bit of laundry-change that she scraped off the dining table the other night, some water, her half-eaten lunch, a comic book and a tiny slip with her address scribbled on it.”
Fiction and Poetry

Simpler Thing

Ditsa Majumder -
““But now, we are walking backwards until we collide. We are talking of women and their men, of the wall, of the weather. Of us. “Does it trouble you too?” I ask.”
B Minor

it takes two to know the truth

Himangi Parekh -
this is a retelling of the truth, of my truth which is shadowed under his, he abused me, broke my lucky tooth, how uncouth, forced me to...
Fiction and Poetry

A Set of Hands

Diya Sood -
“And with every wrong set of hands, he wished only for a dispassionate life. A life of no knots, no slutty mothers and lovelorn fathers.”
Fiction and Poetry

After Sex

Akansha Naithani -
"Love is the coaxing that knives us open"
Fiction and Poetry

Narcissus and I

Arshi Khan -
“Time is a blur and I do not remember what I was before. For as long as I know, the day I came upon these untouched waters, was the day I began to live. For is not to love, to live?”
Poetry

By the Beach With My Grandmother

Kartika Menon -
    I hold her hand Her skin—wrinkled and loose and warm, green walls of veins I pinch it softly, and the fold stands, just for a moment, it stays like...
Fiction

Seasons

Tanmay Pandya -
“The changing of personalities, the unconscious smiles, the problematic views.”
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