By: Narasimha Sharma Veturi I opened my eyes to the frantic chaos of porters pushing my fellow passengers to come in and be the first to carry the luggage of the seemingly rich […]
Story: Old Rum Bottles
Amazon releases Best Books of 2013 List
I’m sure you are interested in knowing the best books for 2013. So Amazon.com announced its selections for the Best Books of 2013. The annual feature includes the editors’ picks for the […]
Poem: The Best Kind of Travel
By: Divya Rosaline I do not have the money to travel But I have traveled far and wide I’ve traveled the songs of dark – eyed women With strange men by their side […]
Poem: Maudling
By: Divya Rosaline My past is fractured with memories of you Some injuries, they say, don’t heal. And while I’m one for pragmatisms I’m entangled in those Minutes Seconds Hours and Days When […]
Today, I will write
By: Divya Rosaline Today, I will write. For myself. My words won’t weave themselves around people’s expectations of it. They won’t skirt around vulgarity and offense. They won’t refrain for the sake of […]
The Romantic Sublime: What Wordsworth Said
By: Sai Diwan ‘Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.’ William Wordsworth (Lyrical Ballads) While it is these words that have made […]
Amazon Publishing launches Day One–A Literary Journal
Dear Friends, You would be glad to know that Amazon Publishing has also jumped in the fray with its own Literary Journal–DAY ONE. I’ve received a press release from the company and […]
Story: The Grinding stone
By: Maya Unnikrishnan She waited for him. He was coming home after 25 years. She has changed, not the woman he brought home .She had that unsure gait in his presence, as […]
Story: Owl in the Water Pit
By: Gaither Stewart Martin was one of those persons to whom unusual things often happen. It was unclear whether he attracted the odd events or if the events attracted him. What is […]
Prose Poetry to Beat Writer’s Block
By: Shloka Shankar Have you ever succumbed to writer’s block? Do the blinking cursor and that blank page on your monitor get the better of you? Have you ever felt the urge […]
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