Nine women. Nine emotions. And their waits. Anupama Krishnakumar writes nine bite-sized stories centered on women and the Navarasas. Part 1 features Śṛngāram (Love), Bībhatsam (Disgust), Hāsyam (Mirth), Bhayānakam (Fear) and Adbhutam (Wonder).
Shatakshi’s photography captures hundreds of pairs of jeans in Old Kolkata that have been given a new lease of life and are waiting to find new owners across the country.
Inspired by Tom Petty’s words, ‘The waiting is the hardest part’, Jean Bonin pens a verse about what it means to wait for things one has no control over, things like growing up.
In this poem, M. Mohankumar pens the feelings of a young man waiting for a woman on a moonless night.
Two women wait at a temple for different reasons. What happens when they see each other? Vani writes a short story.
Chandramohan Nair recollects his brief revelatory conversation with his father over evening tea.
Hello, reader! This issue, let’s delve into secrets – secrets kept, shared, and revealed, secrets that confuse and secrets that clarify – through poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
Disha’s story is about the secrets one is forced to keep because societal expectations neither value nor tolerate their truth. One such truth drives a family apart before bringing them back together.
Mohankumar’s poem relates to the confession, many years later, of a CRPF constable who was involved in an encounter in Kerala in 1970 that resulted in the death of a Naxalite leader.