Parth Pandya captures the bitter-sweet encounters that characterise the relationship between two brothers in verse, gently portraying the unmistakable affection that underlies the bond that binds them both.
Shruti trains her lens to capture affection – the pictures speak for themselves!
Inspired by real-life events, M. Mohankumar writes the tale of two cousins, who rediscover a thread of affection after five decades.
The cure for a splitting headache needn’t always be medication. Anupama Krishnakumar’s poem tells a different story.
Manjula Nair tells the story of Megha, who is nine months pregnant when circumstances push her to have an emergency cesarean. Megha is disoriented after the surgery and cannot accept her baby as her own.
Kavya Sharma’s poem is about a woman wanting to go back to the moment she fell in love, and talks about her need to feel that affection again.
Kousalya tells the story of the relationship between Krishnaa and Sanyasamma, a migrant from Bangladesh who was a house-help at Krishnaa’s place in the town of Visakhapatnam. Their journey together is about acceptance of oddities in life and how love can even such peculiarities out.
THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Ananya Sarkar reviews Mohsin Hamid’s novel Exit West, which is about two nationals of an unnamed Asian city, who are forced to flee their homes when a militant insurgency takes place.
