By: Tanmoy Biswas ***** Groom could not be found for Shontu’s sister. She was squint-eyed. She buried her life behind the noisy sewing-machine and inside dumb kitchen. Once Shontu took her and their old mother to Darjeeling. when in the cloud-free…
By: Tanmoy Biswas Kolkata. Sudder Street bylanes. New Delhi. Rajiv Chowk, outside metro station. Hyderabad. Punjagutta Circle. Bangalore. Backyards of Majestic. Kathmandu. Thamel. Faces painted trite. You smack of caution. Your catches stink erection, beer and (if you’re lucky enough) money….
By: Bekah Steimel Pretend death mailed you a final notice what would you modify, what would you hold close to the ticking time bomb in your chest? give yourself a day to really die, a day to embrace what matters to…
By: Adreyo Sen I am a silence. To myself, the infinite loudness of my pain. No one can hear me. No one knows where I am, so deeply I lie within myself. Were I the weakest iris on a lonely crag,…
By: Jeffrey Miller The day Emily finally got around to boxing up her late husband’s clothes to donate to Goodwill he broke her heart one last time. For months, she painstakingly hung onto them as though this simple act would guarantee…
By: Linda M Crate i sit in the mists of my dreams, but i know my destiny is greater than this; and one day all these sorrows will decrease in value i will rise like the sun in the east…
By: Linda M Crate your heart has no sense of direction even if you are logical, and maybe that’s your problem because there’s nothing logical about love as rewarding as it is; but i wouldn’t expect a self-proclaimed knave to…
Literature Studio in association with Hawakaal Publishers presents the formal launch of the expanded second edition of Poem Continuous — Reincarnated Expressions by Bibhas Roy Chowdhury in STORY, a city bookstore located in southern Kolkata. The Hon’ble Minister of Tourism, Govt. of West…
The twentieth century was one of the worst for the whole of Europe as the struggle for supremacy among different states turned the continent into a warfield where history’s deadliest wars – the World Wars – were fought. More than…
By: Debleena Majumdar “Beautiful scenery isn’t it?” A voice interrupted my thoughts. It could not have been more perfect. The waves rose in perfect rhythm, Crashing safely just off my hammock A lone crone nodded a gentle hello, It could not…