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The Competent Aunt— Mannu Bhandari
Translated from the Hindi by Indrani Tuli It seemed like everyone was daunted by Sayani Bua's (Competent Aunt's) disciplined personality. The household ran with the precision of the machines which operated without a glitch. Everyone would get up…...
The River That Is Time— Bharati Balan
Translated from the Tamil by Dr. S. Vincent The river was massive, at least for us. But never did it flood or foam nor did it ever dash against the banks, just glided gently on. Without…...
Radiating the Incandescence: Reading Ahmed & Remembering Tagore
A book review by Modhura Banerjee IncandescenceAuthor: Mehreen AhmedNo. of pages: 406Published on June 7th, 2022 Incandescence written by Mehreen Ahmed is a parallel exploration into the conflicts and stasis of…...
Psyche— Mahmoud Yasien
Translated from the Urdu by Shams Afif Siddiqi "We are a psychic process which we do not control or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives. If we…...
Between Headlands— Marco Etheridge
He’s twenty-five, thirty feet above the wave-hardened sand, his fingers wrapped over a good knob, right hand reaching for another hold. Then the jug hold sheers clean from the sea stack. His left-hand snaps…...
A Feud In Suburbia— Dan Richardson
A hair-raising yowl. Then thump, thump, and thump. Then silence— for a second. Yes, there’s no denying that I was deliberately aiming my car at the cat. I think you’ll agree, it was justified. It all…...
Miwepa— Eva Taylor
Translated from the Italian by Olivia E. Sears The place where I was born has no name. Everybody simply called it Miwepa, which stood for Mitteldeutsche Wellpappenfabrik, and means something like 'The Central German Corrugated Cardboard…...
Cold Tea— Shaheen Akhtar
Translated from the Bengali by Rituparna Mukherjee The bus lurched to a halt under the darkness of the aerial roots of the banyan tree. The inside of the bus, packed full of passengers, choking in…...
Sparrow’s Flesh – Pratibha Sarkar
Translated from the Bengali by Sukti Sarkar On days when we fussed and went to bed without eating, “you'll lose flesh worth a sparrow from that body of yours when you wake up tomorrow,” Ma…...