GENDER PERSPECTIVE ON HOME AND THE WORLD
Short Story :: Ifeoma Onyefulu There was once a man called Obinna and his wife Ngozi, who didn’t have any children. They were miserable because they had no one to hug, to tell stories to, or even to share food with. They sat in their silent house and stared into space. They had a big house, and without a child, it …
Children’s Easel :: The Child Who Never Went Out Read More
जैसे कि उन की प्रसिद्ध रचना टोबा टेकसिंह में पागल नायक भारत और पाकिस्तान के बीच एक उजाड़ में, जो किसी की भी ज़मीन नहीं है, उस उजाड़ में न यहाँ का रहता है, न वहाँ का। भगवान ने मंटो की जो गाथा लिखी थी, यह उसका अंत था। और यह कहा जा सकता है कि रचनात्मक स्तर पर ईश्वर ने इस तरह का एक नाटकीय अंत मंटो से ही चुराया था।
मंटो, ईश्वर, प्रेमचंद और अन्य कहानीकार Read More
I have spent most of my life in Delhi. But I do not feel sentimental about it. Why do I not? Is it because it is a faceless city or is it because I am not given to nostalgia?
Of Delhi But Not For It Read More
rhythms fade but never cease—
a brief pause until dawn revives the restless peace.
In a specific sense I see myself existing in separation from the word or Śabda as the source of (all?) light. In a singular sense, however, I see myself moulding my being in its materiality which is definitely visceral and even somewhat dark. Do I then see this darkness also as the locus of my volition or is it still some pre-subjective clearing before one reaches the valley or the pass where one beholds what appear as two landscapes in an imagined separation
On the Margins of the Stylized Word: Meanings and their Aural Surplus Read More
Let me disappear
like the camphor in a pouch
like the spirit left in a bottle
like lightning, wind or clouds
In a packet marked brotherhood
Someone whispered in my ears
‘Dates of Mecca is prohibited’.
:: मृदुला गर्ग कुछ समय पहले मैं एंजला कार्टेर का उपन्यास “वाइज़ चिल्ड्रन” पढ़ रही थी। शेक्सपीयर की कौमुदी तर्ज पर लिखा उपन्यास गहरी विदूषकीय दृष्टि से सम्पन्न है, जिसकी अन्तर्धारा, आप जानते हैं, बेहद त्रासद रहती है। दो बूढ़ी, जुड़वां बहनें, अपनी आत्मकथा कहती हैं। एक से एक दुखद घटना का ज़िक्र करती हैं, फिर कहती हैं, पर वह त्रासदी …
प्रज्ञा और गर्भाशय के बीच Read More
Poems :: Babusha Kohli Translated by Rituparna Sengupta Advice to Self Have compassion for the writer of bad poemsfor poetry is always a sign of vitality,Think of it this way: Even in these bleak times, someone wants to keep living Don’t laugh at the personwhose knowledge of directions is limitedto the four corners of his phone’s screen:For actually, he suggests the …
Have Compassion for The Writer of Bad Poems Read More
मैं बोलूं या ना बोलूं
इस समाज से करूंगा हमेशा
संघर्ष