NON FICTION

A literary review of Pieces at Padatik Theatre, performed by Anubha Fatehpuria and directed, scripted, and designed by Vinay Sharma.

A Kaleidoscope of Women Narratives: Pieces at Padatik Theatre— Ankita Bose

The Brownian motion of reverberating thoughts, zigzagging themselves, wriggled my mind as Anubha Fatepuria took the final bow. The solo act titled Pieces, staged twice on 30th April and 1st May 2022…...

The Importance of Ernest Resurfaced in Órgiva – James Storbakken

The dusty streets don’t care, nor do the local residents, but the blatant fact is that the town is full of thousands of hippies. And in this little Andalusian village on the hillside, Órgiva, nestled…...

Smile, Laugh, Cry – Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis

Smile The lyrics say You’ll find that life is just worthwhile if you just smile.* I happened to look at the pictures in the obituaries that the families chose and wondered what they meant to…...

Introducing Mario Benedetti: the Uruguayan Writer and his Naïve and “Not-so-Naïve” Narrators – Clark Bouwman

Uruguay is a small country wedged between Argentina and Brazil, a country of pastureland, lovely beaches, and a large cosmopolitan city, Montevideo. Among its gifts to the world is the literary achievement of the late…...

Gestures Of The Latin American Poetry – Juan Daniel Neira Basto

Selected from the Spanish by Ikaro Valderrama OrtizJuan Daniel Neira Basto (Bogota, 1992) is a professional in Literary Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Teacher, poet, musician, and theater…...

Goodbye Gianni – Enrico Palandri

Gianni Celati was born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1937. The novels Le Avventure di Guizzardi (1973), La Banda dei Sospiri (1976) and Lunario del Paradiso (1978) established Celati as an author of…...

Epic Takes (Part Two) – Arpan Chakraborty

Epic Takes - 1  Translated from the Bengali by Rajat Chaudhuri It was in Kurukshetra, epic battlefield of the Mahabharata, that the preceding story of the birth…...

Musings Upon the Harvest Moon- John C. Krieg

The harvest moon is not the largest, or a so-called “super moon”, but to marijuana farmers it is the most noticeable and most significant of all the 12 or 13 moons experienced in the yearly…...

Tamarind and Day – Mandira Pattnaik

Like the rawness of dark, the dead of nights, the unambiguity of desire, as if all that is true. Now, not all of this is false...