Short Stories

Short Story

A Positive Proposal

A story on how women have battled Covid woes, first published on Women's Web in March 2022. A POSITIVE PROPOSAL The steam vaporizer let out…
Co-authored Anthology

The Anatomy of a Memory

This short story was published (in two parts) in The MockingOwl Roost, a US-based art and literary magazine.   14 July 2019, Meghalaya, India The…
Short Story

A Crimson Dawn

1536, Chittor, Mewar   The long, canopied balconies in the Rana Kumbha Palace came alive every afternoon with the pitter-patter of little feet, the euphonic tinkling…
Short Story
Bullseye!
Short Story
Song of the River
Short Story
The Bliss of Solitude
Short Story
A Relic by the Sea
Co-authored Anthology
Eclipsed and Exiled
Short Story
Flames of Faith

Poetry

Poetry

I Drank with the Moon

(Published in the May 2023 issue of Borderless Journal)    I watched the pregnant moon melt – a pearly blob in the pulp of my…
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;…
Poetry

I am NAARI

This poem was published in the TMYS Story Project - 12 (December, 2023). Given below is an excerpt of it.   Pre-destined to birth, nourish,…
Poetry
When Tangerine Met Teal     
Poetry
Silent Noise
Poetry
Paradise Lost
Poetry
Stifled No More
Poetry
An Amaranthine Alliance
Poetry
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Flash Fiction

Flash Fiction

Sunn Tan, with a Difference

ArtoonsInn prompt for 250-word Flash Fiction (August, 2024) - Write about a love story between two persons from a panipuri seller's POV. They meet for…
Flash Fiction

The Sacred Sinner

It is that time of the year again. I look up - the morning sky is a brilliant sapphire, flecked with feathery, white clouds. The…
Co-authored Anthology

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
A Lavender Trail
Flash Fiction
The Permanence of Change
Flash Fiction
Of Pearly Pinks and Glorious Gold
Flash Fiction
And the Stars Shone
Flash Fiction
The Last Tango
Flash Fiction
Amaranthine Love

Book Reviews

Book Review

Book Review – The Labyrinth of Silence

Book – The Labyrinth of Silence Author – Dr Aparna Salvi Nagda Publisher – Vishwakarma Publications Length – 205 pages (all included) Genre – Social…
Book Review

The Mussoorie Murders – Book Review

The Mussoorie Murders, Divyaroop Bhatnagar's debut novel published by Om Books International, proves to be an interesting read, particularly for readers like me who nurse…
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
Stars from the Borderless Sea
Book Review
The People Tree by Beetashok Chatterjee
Book Review
Book Review – The Fairly Ordinary Princess by Khushboo Shah
Book Review
Eclectic Emotions by Debashree Basak
Book Review
Myriad of Dreams by Nisha Tandon
Book Review
Saudade by Debarati Sen – Book Review

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