Fragrance - Different Truths

January 14, 2017
Marco North
Multiculturalism, People, Place

Indian Spice in Moscow: Love and Time

Jeeva opened his first spice market in Moscow over fourteen years ago, when he was a student importing bags of curry and turmeric in his luggage. The spices he imported...

January 7, 2017
Different Truths
Book Club

Jihad in my Saffron Garden: A Search for Global Peace among Terrorism and Turmoil

Roshina is a famous writer. Love has eluded her and her passions are her work and her son Zohaib, who she has brought up single-handedly. Despite possessing grit and substance,...

December 9, 2016
Sehar Siddiqi
Poem, Short Story

Romancing the Celestial Bodies and Strawberry Fragrance

Here are two literary works by Sehar, a poem and a short story, woven around the theme of the silent solitude. In Romancing the Celestial Bodies, she delves into the...

December 5, 2016
Nilakshi Roy
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

A Saree called Suhasini: I smiled and draped it on Nuptial Night

Suhasini is a Tangail cotton with mooga stripes across her, some paisleys carefully woven like an alpana across the threshold, when you welcome Goddess Lakshmi or a bride to the household. Suhasini...

November 9, 2016
Lily Swarn
People, Place, Travel & Food

Music, Monuments, Culture and Style gives Lucknow its Nawabi Nazakat

The fragrance of kebabs wafts out of the very mention of Lucknow and the cultural bonanza it offers is the stuff dreams are made of. The city is synonymous with...

October 30, 2016
Neelam Saxena Chandra
Fairs & Festivals, Poem

This Diwali

In this evocative verse, Neelam, puts on a make-up of values, of spiritual satisfaction, for unity of the people. At a time of clashes and divisions, of terrorism and...

July 12, 2016
Saheli Mitra
Potpourri

Monsoon Memories: A Letter to Paper Boat

The essential romantic in us celebrates and serenades the rain. Blue Eve reminisces the monsoon, days of torrential rains, her little paper boat and more. She walks down the...

June 7, 2016
Arindam Roy
Potpourri

Spooky Gour!

In his over three-decade journey as a journalist, Arindam shows us the many faces of newsrooms in India, at the turn of the Millennium. It’s about the glimpses of life both...

May 28, 2016
Ipsita Ganguli
Poem

A Drive through the Clouds

Ipsita celebrates the beauty of majestic hills wrapped in a veil of light drizzle. Imagine the hills As twilight descends And the clouds come down To settle on the...

May 13, 2016
Ritamvara Bhattacharya
Potpourri

Little Island

Ritamvara aka the mountain girl, writes from a darling’s heart, Darjeeling (India). In her intense and sensuous piece, a reflective prose-poem, she yearns union with the Himalayas. She writes for the...

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