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By Sumana Roy · Sumana Roy's debut novel Missing is a study of the modern marriage, played out against the awareness of the question: what happens when a wife goes missing? Read an excerpt from the book here.
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By Meghna Pant · New husbands are like burrs: they stick, they irritate, and they’re mostly unwanted.
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By Smarika Kumar · Our feelings are second-hand. Our love is constructed. Our beliefs are coloured, our originality validated through artificial art. It has become truly difficult to love without getting hurt.
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By Jai Undurti · Right before the end, reality had become a bad sci-fi movie, the kind you watch at four in the morning, unable to sleep, unable to turn the T.V. off.
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By Devashish Makhija · The Maoists aren’t a ‘tribe’, though some of them might be tribals. The C.R.P.F. certainly isn’t. Which tribe hunts for a monthly salary?
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By Neha Chaudhary-Kamdar · It was the summer before her final year of college when Vaidehi first saw Suresh Babu.
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By Ritwik Deshpande · Her joints are stiff, but it’s nothing to worry about. It’s her natural condition.
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By Surya Vaidyanathan · Alice pressed her palm to the cool glass as her husband snipped away at the fabric that would form his fourth hat that week.
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By Heema Shirvaikar · Maybe it wasn’t her love that was strange. Maybe it was Grandpa’s.
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By Praveen K Nair · When she sipped from the flowers, she would make sure that her wings were stretched out and displayed properly for him.
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By Philip John · You don’t know me but I have lived a lifetime with you.
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By Divya Bhatia · The man’s voice had reached where his hands couldn’t have.
