This short story was first published as a featured post on Women's Web in June 2023, to celebrate the Pride Month A pool of…
Urmi ChakravortyAugust 15, 2023
This is an excerpt from my short story, The Caprice of Colour, published in the TMYS Review of March, 2023. The journal is available on…
Urmi ChakravortyJuly 31, 2023
Published by WriteFluence in their latest anthology The Other Side II Inserting just a few paragraphs - the entire story can not be published here,…
Urmi ChakravortySeptember 25, 2022
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
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
“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
Khulna (modern Bangladesh), 1949 Ulu-ulu-ulu-lu-lu. . . the shrill, rapturous cries of the women dissipated in the night air as did the smoke from the…
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
