Being With You…
Farha imagines that she is with her lover (read husband), lost in the dewy beauty of morning. Here’s a dreamy love poem from Roses and Rhymes, a collection of Love...
Love, Seduction and Sex: Three Sirens of Literature
Renowned writers have dealt with love, seduction and sex aesthetically and sensitively. Ratan takes a close look into the so-called ‘Victorian taboos’ and shows us how these ‘three sirens’ of literature...
Saraswati Puja and V-Day: Celebrate the Season of Love
Bengali youth are lucky this year. Saraswati Puja, the Bengali Valentine’s Day, and the Valentine’s Day follow each other. Weekend adds to the Romance. Yellow or red, love is here...
Quiet Flows the Falgu
Love has many shades and hues. Mamoni, a 12-year girl, who never knew what marriage was chose to remain a widow, devoted to the husband she never lived a day with....
A Love Story that Bloomed into a City
Mira reviews the play, Quli: Dilon Ka Shahjada, unraveling the love story that led to the foundation of Hyderabad. A poet-king’s love for a Devadasi is a part of our cultural...
Floral Symbols in the Poems of Ratan Bhattacharjee
Book Details 1. The Ballad of the Bleeding Bubbles, Cyberwit.net. Allahabad, 2013.(ISBN: 978-81-8253-446-9), Price $15 /Rs.200 (Pages 78) in print. 2.Oleander Blooms , Authorspress, New Delhi. 2015. (ISBN: 978-93-5207-045-9),...
Tamasha: To Love…
Anita reviews Tamasha. Life does not begin when you find love; it begins when you find yourself. To begin a movie of passion in the second act, sustain its tempo...
Today, I Finally Found You
Ampat’s poem celebrates the immense power of love. His lyrical poem with epic sensibility, moves from the sensual to the social selves. Today I finally found you in between...
The Card Players
A renowned writer, Santosh vividly depicts a scene of a street corner in urban India. She presents a slice of vibrant throbbing life in paroxysm of emotions. In a surprise...
Two Dark Poems
Different Truths introduces poems from this issue. Ratan pens two dark poems that deal with hatred, violence and deaths, unleashing untold miseries that men in the supreme ignorance bring...