Urmi Chakravorty, Author at Urmi Chakravorty

A Dawn of Hope

Chittagong (Bengal), 1927 The charcoal chunks in the clay oven crackled and sputtered as the dying embers fought a losing battle to burn bright. The…

Urmi ChakravortyJune 20, 2022

Short Story

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…

Urmi ChakravortyJune 18, 2022

Flash Fiction

The Permanence of Change

Shagun was peering at her face in the large, oval, mirror in her room. A deep furrow lined her glabella. She clearly did not like…

Urmi ChakravortyJune 18, 2022

Short Story

The Bliss of Solitude

“Teeya, where are you? Papa wants to talk to you,” Sandhya called out affectionately to her 25-year-old daughter. Must be cosying up in bed with…

Urmi ChakravortyJune 18, 2022

Short Story

Amor Fati – a story of new beginnings

Kumud stashed away the clean, folded clothes in the modest steel almirah. She arranged her pillows and the duvet on the single cot exactly the…

Urmi ChakravortyJune 18, 2022

Article

The Joy of Detachment

I still remember the first time my husband, then a young Flying Officer in the Indian Air Force, went to Punjab on what was known…

Urmi ChakravortyJune 18, 2022

Article

The Dilemma Around a New Year

Aah, the race for a resolution. The end of the calendar year, any year, fills me with an uncanny trepidation and angst. As the year…

Urmi ChakravortyJune 18, 2022

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…

Urmi ChakravortyJune 17, 2022

Flash Fiction

A Match Sui Generis

The roseate dawn tiptoes into my bedroom, heralding a new day…arguably, the most special one in my 24-year-old life. The white pigeon perches on the…

Urmi ChakravortyJune 12, 2022

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…

Urmi ChakravortyMay 17, 2022

A Dawn of Hope

When Death Whispered Hope

The Permanence of Change

The Bliss of Solitude

Amor Fati – a story of new beginnings

The Joy of Detachment

The Dilemma Around a New Year

A Positive Proposal

A Match Sui Generis

A Scarlet Saga

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