This country Still warm with the blood of common people Spilled during the People’s War Stands on the corpses Of murdered kings and prime ministers People, old and young These and those Wait for the emancipation With eternal sadness in their eyes And make stories, within grim fogs That there is no hope for the […]
When Rajiv married, almost all friends in the troupe played a prank – Prajwol should fall for Rajiv’s sali. Prajwol, timid and reticent guy, blushed at his friends’ gimmickry that continued for few weeks, and eventually everyone forgot. Even Prajwol did not remember, once he was mocked about a girl, whose face though he had […]
Productions and sales and consumptions are the conditions of human existence. Advertising is an integral part of selling. And to reach the target customers, manufacturers try to penetrate the market through different kinds of promotions such as text and pictures, and audio and video messages. Advertisers use three different medium to sell a product: print, […]
Walking the Dog Every morning he jogged with his dog to the central park, and she was there watching her dog do the acrobatics. Couple of weeks later, they were in a restaurant. Their dogs sat smugly, looking at their masters for a cue. They both were straight like their masters and did not find […]
Please, don’t come near I’m pregnant. Spare me O brother! Don’t you have sisters? See, I’m like your sister You don’t do dirty things to your sister, do you I’m eight months pregnant My child will die They pointed gun at me Asked to cook, give them bed How could I say no when I […]
Like a lone soul striving to congregate with the distant horizon, here I stand on the roof terrace and blankly stare at the settlements of the valley which, after an ablution in the heavy rain, germinates into a beautiful maiden looking askance at her beau. The street below is dotted with puddles, tantamount to the […]
Flash Fiction: The Drunken Poet “Give me some beautiful lines, make me feel good, make me feel special,” she said. “Every night….I see you…I feel you,” he smiled at himself. “Sorry about the burrowed lines.” “Burrowed?” she asked. “From where you borrowed that one? I mean not where, from whom?” “From a song by Celine […]
Chapter One “Mani, wake up, how long do you think you can sleep.” God! Why’s this piggy in room? “He’s still sleeping?” Shit! This old man’s also here. “Does he ever get up early?” Why can’t this blacky keep his mouth shut. Why these people have to start their day ticking off me. Why don’t […]
Biography of Euripides Euripides is one of the three great tragedians of classical Greek dramas. He was born in 484 BC, in Athens and died in 406, Macedonia. Historians debate about his lineage, some say his mother sold herbs and his father was a retailer, while others say he came from well off family. Euripides […]
Poet’s Note: This poem is loosely based on the incident of 12 Nepalese kidnapped and killed by an Iraqi terrorist group Ansar Al-Sunna in August 2004. The 12 Nepalese were trafficked into Iraq by a foreign employment agency as migrant workers. The migrant workers were promised jobs in a hotel in Jordon but were sent […]