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October 30, 2016
Subhajit Sanyal
Fairs & Festivals, Rituals & Practices, Short Story, Special Feature

Innate Indigo: Awakening the Kali Within

At the midnight of Diwali, Kali Puja is performed by Bengalis. Tara, a garland seller at the Karunamayi Kali Temple, watches the temple committee arrange for the festival. Little by little,...

October 27, 2016
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Gender, Human Rights, Short Story

Being Invisible to the Beautiful

Ira’s life turned topsy-turvy with the death of her husband. Her elder son, Shailesh, a gay, who was loving and caring like his father had to leave the house, as gays...

October 22, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Short Story

The Bride of Death

Life is full of strange surprises. It’s rightly said that facts are stranger than fiction. The protagonist, Anita, found acceptance of her love with Shubho perhaps a little too late....

October 16, 2016
Sunita Paul
Short Story

Love Never Dies!

It was sheer coincidence that Sara met Aniket on a crowded railway platform. They had loved each other to bits, passionately, since childhood. Religion, class and other divisions that...

October 2, 2016
Anumita Roy
Short Story

And then…

Sneha, the protagonist, goes about her routine life with clockwork precision. She gets up at the crack of the dawn to prepare breakfast for Ayushi, her adopted daughter, and to...

October 1, 2016
Arindam Roy
Cover Story, Short Story

The Blue Ambassador Car

Arindam cites a real life experience, with real people and incidents. A blue ambassador car was being readied for a long journey, by Om, the driver, on a foggy and...

September 27, 2016
Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Short Story, Sports

Akashganga: Cosmogony and Mythology – I

The birth and creation of Akashganga: The Indian Air Force Skydiving Team is a long story of about forty years in the annals of sport parachuting. To the uninitiated the...

September 25, 2016
Sunita Paul
Crime, Short Story

How Seema Combatted the Evil!

Are our children safe? Young girls are more vulnerable to the diabolical plans and evil designs of men in our society. These evil doers have many faces. Sunita tells...

September 24, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Short Story

The House of the Dead

Madhumita, a non-believer, did not believe in gods or ghosts, nor did she subscribe to religion. She met her friend from another city and as they were catching up on...

September 18, 2016
Arindam Roy
Short Story

The Love Story of Eugènie and Anirban

They were from different worlds, Eugènie and Anirban. What made them come together? Each of them had their baggage. But love is so overpowering that it breaks many boundaries. Here’s an...

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