With Quiet Violence by David Whitman
Melissa had already begun to melt. A pool of water ran from her tiny feet onto the wooden floor....
Prose
Spellbound by Jude Brigley
It was a long way from there to here. Sometimes she wondered if this place was real or if...
Memoir: Poet who Survived Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Attack by Bhisma Upreti
Celebrated Scottish poet Tessa Ransford emailed me about Japanese poet Bun Hasijume – ‘Poet Bun Hasijume had a narrow...
Colonisation of Female Body by Sucheta Chakraborty
I came to know about ‘comfort women’ after going through an article that was published in Ananda Bazaar Patrika...
A Woman into a Man: A film Review by Dishari Sarkar
“I want to be a woman, not a painter” Lilli Elbe firmly declared it after the passage of six...
Goddess of Railways by Abdullah Al Muktadir
‘I was quite sure that you would never come back’- as she speaks to me, she ensures that her...
Octopus by Umme Farhana
I was five and he was six We rode on horses made of sticks He was black and I...
My Body ~ A Story Board by Chador Wangmo
I splash water on my face. A stinging pain sears through. My eyes are bloodshot red. My face is...
A Brief History of Illness In My Family – A Personal Essay by Tolu Daniel
That midnight back in 1996 after Kanu Nwankwo made his long legs a National Treasure and people poured into...
RELATING THE MYTH OF PHILOCTETES TO LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF SEAMUS HEANEY’S “THE CURE AT TROY” BY Shahida Parveen and Madiha Saeed
The story “The Cure at Troy” is based on the myth of Philoctetes by Sophocles. Philoctetes was a great...