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Short Stories

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Eclipsed and Exiled

This short story was published in Rigorous, an international literary magazine.   Inspection - your most dreaded day of the month. It’s not that you…
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When Death Whispered Hope

The familiar swish of paper floats in from the adjoining room and I look up from my laptop. A half-smile irons out the furrows of…
Short Story

The Forests Whisper a Secret

This is an excerpt from my short story, The Forests Whisper a Secret, published in the TMYS Review of June, 2023. The journal is available…
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A Universe Less Equal
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A Positive Proposal
Short Story
A Rainbow Love
Co-authored Anthology
The Anatomy of a Memory
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Flames of Faith
Short Story
A Relic by the Sea

Poetry

Poetry

Soul Craft – October Poetry Contest

Prompt: This Dusshehra, what would you like to rid your life of? My entry was adjudged a winner.   As the curtains descend on the…
Poetry

Locked Longings

This poem was published in The Wise Owl litmag in December, 2024.   The chipped raw wood door to my heart lies bolted with a…
Poetry

Paradise Lost

Old albums, sepia photographs, I see When the world looked young and the joys were fresh Locked within these lonely confines, how do I flee?…
Poetry
A Little More in Love
Poetry
Philia Forever
Poetry
An Amaranthine Alliance
Poetry
The Red Bindi
Poetry
I am NAARI
Poetry
A Palette of Pride

Flash Fiction

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The Ride

This was among the nine stories selected globally (and the only one from Asia) for the Wordrunner eChapbooks Micro Prose Issue of  October, 2024  …
Flash Fiction

Of Pearly Pinks and Glorious Gold

Paritosh rested against the grille of his balcony, holding his prized DSLR camera - a gift from Ronit - as the captivating Garhwal Himalayas loomed…
Flash Fiction

A Scarlet Saga

You look at his eyes – lovely, brown orbs - now fixated, unseeing, bulging out of their sockets. You crouch on the floor next to…
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And the Stars Shone
Flash Fiction
The Permanence of Change
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A Lavender Trail
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The Chase
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The Last Tango
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Sister Act

Book Reviews

Book Review

Recipe for a Perfect Marriage by Women’s Web

Recipe for a Perfect marriage, the recently published annual offering of Women’s Web, is an anthology of 25 stellar short stories curated carefully from a…
Book Review

Xanadu – Three Souls Searching for their Paradise, by Harshita Nanda

A story reads best when it is fuelled by real life experiences and steered forward by vivid imagination, as Xanadu, the debut novella of Harshita…
Book Review

The People Tree by Beetashok Chatterjee

When a widely travelled person with a wealth of experience behind him, chooses to wield the pen, the result is an engaging collection of fourteen…
Book Review
Kausalya, Queen of Hearts – Book Review
Book Review
Myriad of Dreams by Nisha Tandon
Book Review
Beneath Divided Skies – A Riveting Read
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Book Review – A Quantum Healing System by Lakshmi Ajoy
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Book Review – The Fairly Ordinary Princess by Khushboo Shah
Book Review
Saudade by Debarati Sen – Book Review

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