Parth Pandya’s verse captures the life of a young woman whose soul though has aged owing to scars from her past.
Presenting to you an issue that is about life in the city! The May 2018 issue presents fiction, non-fiction and poetry around the many hues, shapes and attitudes of cities and the people within.
A young girl braves a solo pilgrimage across town in the city of dreams. What follows is a trial by fire – well, almost – and a sneaky feeling that some events in life don’t always turn out to be picture perfect.
People change; so do cities, for better or worse. Chandramohan Nair shares memories of the Madras he knew as a young man and reflects on the changes that he now sees in the city.
Living in a city is as much about searching for solitude as it is about navigating through loneliness. Deepthi Krishnamurthy addresses the unsettling nature of city life in her three poems about urban commute, restless insomnia and the claustrophobia of the ‘inside’.
A family of three moves to Bombay in the 1980s and reacts to their changed lives in the city. Vani’s story captures the thoughts of Geetha, Aarthi and Suresh.
A woman arrives in a city that was never hers and soon becomes a fragment of that whole. Parth Pandya’s verse tells the woman’s story and her relationship with the city that took her hostage.
Anupama Krishnakumar’s poem talks about some of the heart-warming experiences that she lived through as a single woman in Bombay over a decade ago.
Pulkit Singh contemplates her daughter’s lack of regular exposure to the city life as she lives in a small town. A trip to a big city with the daughter adds a realisation that Pulkit writes about here.