Short Stories
A Summer Sonata
April 2004 The square envelope lay on the carved rosewood peg table, conspicuous by its stark white look, broken only by the carefully inscribed name in…
The Girl in the Red Dress
My short story based in Landour, Uttarakhand, found a place in All Your Stories - a lit mag based out of Somerset, UK - and…
Poetry
I Am
#ArtoonsInnPoetryParlour #Poattic22 #AbstractPoetry I Am Sometimes I am Hope - Weaving roseate, virile dreams in hoary, nebulous eyes And heaving hearts, yearning for a fillip;…
A Palette of Pride
#coloursofpride #Poattic23 #ArtoonsInnPoetryParlour (June, 2023) Orange, Green and Yellow, the holy shades of faith Thrust upon my rebel self, nearly stifling it to death. "She's…
Flash Fiction
From Sign to Scar
Written for ArtoonsInn Writers Room in September 2024, for a 300-word Flash Fiction prompt: Write the story of a scar your character has - physical or…
A Lavender Trail
This flash fiction was published in the international e-mag, The Wise Owl, in September, 2023. You always enjoyed doing that to me, didn’t you,…
Book Reviews
Book Review – The Fairly Ordinary Princess by Khushboo Shah
Book: The Fairly Ordinary Princess Author: Khushboo Shah Genre: Children’s Fantasy (works for adults, too) Looking for a light read that’s bound to warm…
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…
