The Dancing Lamp

Childhood and teenage are magical years. Two teenagers, Arun and Gaurishankar, witness a spooky incident. The midsummer nights’ eerie event scared them. Despite their fears, they recorded the details of the...
  • August 6, 2016
  • Deeya Bhattacharya

Those Lips you Wear

This is a kind of Rhymester poem that came to Deeya in a certain delight seeing the lips of someone who’s very close to her. She was taken in by...
  • July 28, 2016
  • Deeya Bhattacharya

The Alphabet of Love

An intense, erotic prose-poem by Deeya. Sunsets have stories to unfurl I guess – each sunset one of its kind – it’s the quiet lilt in the far horizon...
  • July 3, 2016
  • Anumita Roy

Tulsi Mancha

A beautiful love poem by Anumita, where the wife waits for her sailor husband, praying and pining at the Tusli Mancha. She pulls her sari veil over her head, with...

How did the Leap Year Begin?

AG Brace reveals the story of the Leap Year. He explains how the Julian calendar differs from the Gregorian calendar. February 29 is truly a remarkably dauntless attempt by Julius Caesar...