There’s this issue that attacks women every month before their cycle of physical torture and has no cure whatsoever: the Pre-Menstrual Syndrome (PMS). Mridula shares how PMS dramatically unfolds in her life.
Avantika Singhal’s first poem is about the thoughts that rose in her mind after experiencing a mild earthquake in her hometown, Jaipur. Her second poem is about dreams and how it sometimes becomes impossible to see them fulfilled.
Eight-year-old Divakar Mathew enrols in a Vishnu Sahasranamam recitation competition to try to get closer to his friends. Things don’t go as planned for him, though; Vani tells the story of a Christian boy caught in a staunchly Hindu privileged-caste environment.
Anupama Krishnakumar captures the flavour of her life in recent months in this poem.