Praveena’s prose poem is the internal monologue of an individual exploring identity and sexuality in a society that sees and yet doesn’t see the struggle for this space, and how choice, often always silent, even in the smallest acts, plays out in everyday life.
Hema Nair’s poem talks about the silence born of loneliness—a silence that can be deafening. This solitude comes from an inability to love because of self-imposed boundaries. Enveloped in an introspective silence, though, we can seek to understand ourselves, attempt to change, or be stoic in our acceptance.
A man goes silent for a long time and the world around him interprets his silence in their own little ways. Parth Pandya writes a story about how a man’s silence influences the universe around him in unexpected ways.
Srinivas’s poem paints silence, first in the seven colours of a rainbow; and then, in black, white and shades of grey. Each colour represents phenomena, which are often experienced in silence, due either to choice, or to compulsion, or to the very nature of certain experiences. Admittedly, the links between the various colours and what they represent are, in many cases, subjective.
Life revolves around relationships – with people, things, food, places and memories. This February, we explore ‘Relationships’ of many kinds through fiction, non-fiction, poetry and photography. Read, reminisce, enjoy and share!
A teenager witnesses life through the eyes of his ailing grandmother over the course of a day’s stay. He comes back bearing testimony to the effects of negligence and the power it possesses over lives built around years of care and hardships. Sarba tells the story.
There are some obvious human relationships: parent-child, siblings, lovers, friends. Then there is the kind Vighnesh Hampapura elucidates in this essay: one with an actor removed in time, land and language becomes the guiding lamp to an aspiring theatre performer.
M. Mohankumar’s verse focuses on a relationship gone awry – it speaks of two factions engaged in a pointless dispute, as in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
Chandramohan Nair can’t help feeling that he didn’t measure up to the affection and loyalty displayed by his courageous pet dog.