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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
