Bhuvana Sri’s poem is about those true friends who are always there for you in the darkest of times, and the joy of realising that you are not alone.
What does it mean to enter a house as a pet kitten and break into the circle of friendship forged by four older cats living there? Anupama Krishnakumar’s story tells you more.
Nighat teaches the story’s narrator how to make tea, and friendship blossoms, with tea at the centre of it all – until they meet again, seventeen years later. Vani tells the story.
True friendship is an eternal bond that surpasses seasons and distance. Amrutha Mohan’s poem talks about different stages of a precious comradeship – the childhood innocence, separation and reunion of old friends – and yokes it with different seasons.
Praveena’s story describes a troubled mind that finds succour in a relationship so deep that it is hard to delineate the real from the imagined, where friendship is more unspoken than spoken and experiences more dependent on than independent of reality
Anupom’s poem is about two individuals who come from two different geographical locations and their friendship. The speaker of the poem makes an effort to understand the queerness of his friend. He makes her realize that he is her mirror image. His place of birth and the river Brahmaputra epitomise queerness.
In this story by Archana, a young woman meets someone after going through a breakup. Confused about naming the kind of relationship they share, the two people draw comfort from their company in the short time that they borrow from each other’s lives.
Friendship, according to Shiitaal Budhrauj, is a whole gamut of emotions and sometimes, in a friendship spanning a lifetime between a man and a woman, the boundaries may blur – the two may evolve into lovers with the comfort and history of friendship behind them. She presents this point of view through her prose poem.
Let’s bring you some joy this time! Read this compact and cosy issue with poetry, fiction and non-fiction around the theme ‘Joy’. We also have a beautiful photo essay that capture profound joy of different kinds.