Tara is wonderstruck at the giant thingamabob in her son’s house. Sudha Nair tells the story.
Look around and the omnipresent beauty will find you in her myriad ways. Saima Afreen unleashes a whole new world in front of your eyes through her poem.
Spells of perfect silence are brief and elusive like the dew that slips off a leaf. Anupama Krishnakumar writes a poem on the elusive silence that leaves her wonderstruck.
Sadako, suffering from leukaemia due to exposure to radiation from the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, makes a wish. Vani Viswanathan tells you how.
Sarah finishes reading a book and a chain of events unfurl following that. Anupama Krishnakumar writes a story with strange twists and turns.
What exactly is Wonderland for Aman Chougle? It is a place where you’re never cynical about or resent anything, he writes.
This October, we celebrate a beautiful, personal and heartwarming art form – the handwritten letter. The tradition of writing letters by hand is, unfortunately, getting increasingly sidelined in an era where emails, SMS and social media are dominating our communication. The warmth that a handwritten letter brings is indeed special and it is this warmth that we have attempted to capture in this issue. We present a delightful selection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry that celebrate the handwritten letter in multiple ways. We earnestly hope that this edition inspires you to take up a pen and paper and write to a loved one and in the process, rediscover the joys that only a handwritten letter can bring.
Set in the pre-independent era, two men, one a fiesty Bengali and the other a rebellious Tamizh, share the moments from their life and times, through words, hued with utmost respect, patriotic vigour and a tinge of poetry. Bhargavi Chandrasekharan presents a series of moving handwritten letters, as seen from the vantage point of one of the pen pals.
Snippets from letters that a mother writes to her daughter over a period of time reveal what the mother infers from her daughter’s letters and what she, in turn, tells her little one. Shobhana Kumar writes a poem that captures the conversation between a mother and a daughter, from the mother’s perspective.