![Mother, illustration by Tara Isha](http://helterskelter.in/wp-content/uploads/hsnw3-mother.jpg)
I take you
like a paper doll
and crumple you
because I find that
the noise you make
drowns out the real sound
of your bones ageing
and you fading.
![Shruti Rao](http://helterskelter.in/wp-content/uploads/nw3-shrutil.jpg)
Shruti is a 24-year-old literature postgraduate from Jawaharlal Nehru University. By day she’s an editor at a children’s publishing house and a word-ninja by night. Her favourite movie is Jaani Dushman—Sonu Nigam had her at his red spandex pants and she hasn’t felt love like that ever since.
![Tara Isha](http://helterskelter.in/wp-content/uploads/nw3-tara.jpg)
Tara is an aspiring artist/illustrator from New Delhi. She’s not good at much else. Literature and sporadic post-hardcore obsessions keep her doodling.
Lovely.
Thank you Aditya! :)
Brilliant. As per usual.
amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subtle and fantastic. (y)
Thank you! :)
Brilliant Shruti. It evokes and I can relate:)
That was brutally honest.