Fiction

Fiction Team Reflections

I am War! – Aklant Das

Hi! I am “WAR”. What! Are you taken aback? Well, let me tell you a little secret: every word in a dictionary is alive and has feelings. Although I was first mentioned in literature or given a name in the 12th century, I am certain that I existed long before that. I don’t recall much […]

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Fiction Team Reflections

From A to Z – Aklant Das

Another scintillating performance by the crew, bunch of amateurs, bold enough to revamp old and legendary plays with contemporary touch. ‘Bewitching’ is the name they go by, performing in New York,the cultural capital of the world. Consist of artists from different ethnicities,recruited by the play writer and director Dr. Max Cruise. Dorothy, the lead actress […]

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The Story of a Non -Linear Transformation by Professor Prasenjit Sen

The families of two good friends came to settle down after their retirements to the salubrious climate of Pune from the hot spells of central India. Their अभिन्न हृदय friendship continues since both were PhD students in Cambridge, Geetimoy Banerjee in English and Vishal Sahasrabudhe in Mathematical Statistics. They selected a nice society in Pashan Hills, […]

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Au revoir

Edited by Bishakha Jain Byes are never good, I wonder who coined the word goodbye. What was his motivation behind the word? Was the person he was leaving behind so terrible that farewell made him feel good? I laugh out loud at my own musings and then I am startled by the sound. It feels […]

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Ringed by Adya Mishra

Reviewed by Bishakha Jain. It has been 7 years. She wonders if she also flits across his thoughts and colours them with wistfulness as he does with hers. Are you still a wife if you no longer have a husband? The only remaining side of an incomplete equation, unbalanced. Varuni wakes up, without the help […]

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