Colour discrimination

And so it has come to pass that my dear husband never misses a day for having to suffer life

Reminisce

Our first entry in The Leafy Glade Inn’s Victorian Study, is one in which the author softly remembers people in

Azadi

A woman in Tehran intervenes when her husband becomes a smuggler of alcohol

When the Sea Swallowed a City Whole

Where the river Kaveri drains into the Bay of Bengal, there once was a city that was the setting for

Short Story

Moth’s Flame Doused by Wind

He walked in bearing the lighter in his hands to light a flame that he promised to protect till eternity.

Short Story

Just Another Stupid Love Story

Women show varying degrees of interest in my wrists

Short Story

Vanishing Point

... if by chance our lives, unmolested, had been allowed to continue

Short Story

Oh So Vicious

She had instructed me to stay away from him because she really liked him. She was only joking about how

Short Story

Some Birds Don’t Fly

I can hear the jingle of her ankle bracelet in rhythm to the heavy tabla beats

Ismat Chughtai’s Autobiography -- A Transalation

Let her, said my father

Poetry

City

Here are people who are not naked

The Second Sun

It was perhaps on the main bridge where a man first noticed an odd light across the eastern horizon. Instead

Poetry

Waiting for you, Mahatma

Proud I am of Gandhiji’s birth - But feeling ashamed of not being its worth!

Bhatti’s “Behzti (Dishonor)” hurts Sikh Sensitivities

But then the play wouldn’t have created a (publicity) storm; it would probably not have attracted much attention. One of

Light at the End of the Tunnel

What are NDEs? Are they the prelude to our life after death or the very last experience we have before

Short Story

Leprosy

Urvishi is unhappy and silent, walks sluggishly. Did ever Sahil before it watch her slothful? No, no, no. Might a