It is not often that one has the opportunity to review the work of a dear friend, but perhaps it is inevitable that when writing for a community magazine, there is a spark of recognition upon reading the name of the author in a review copy. The arts community of...
“Not straight, not gay, not girl enough, miles away from man. Just queer, man, as in queer. I dentif i As queer. I like the way it sounds like the start Of ‘weird’. The way I don’t have a plan. Queer.” —From the poem ‘Queer As In’ by Delhi-based non-binary, femme...
Late one night, I read Sadako’s Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. The book is based on the true story of a little girl called Sadako who contracts Leukemia ten years after the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My heart attached itself to the lively,...
This story is published once a month as part of the column – Legends of Quintessence – which interacts with Sci-Fi in a South Asian context. Recap Sneha, our hero is one of many clones being raised within a research lab on earth. Unlike the others, she...
Empowered” is a gutsy and gritty adjective that some women have the luxury of being heralded with. But do all these women set out to be “empowered” or do circumstances simply tread them along a trailblazing path, which perhaps was the only path available to them,...
Shruti Swamy’s debut collection of stories A House is a Body is a highly anticipated volume, after the potential displayed in the publication of her stories in journals like the Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review Online among others. She is also a two-time...
