Sita — Nandini Sahu

         “And we forget because we must                                                     And not because we will.”                                                                       –Matthew Arnold, ’Absence’ “One feature of modern sensibility is…the idea that what has been forgotten is what forms our character, our personality, our soul.”                                                                –Ian Hacking Forgetting and forgiving, the two eternal qualities of any human being—of Sita in this context—have they not been rather …

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Letter to My Unborn Daughter — Nandini Sahu

    Tiny limbs smeared with my fresh enflamed blood oozing out of the womb, gushing in fact. I knew. I had lost you.Then and there. Shattered. The sadomasochist burped then, and snored  in a short while, when the maid rushed us to the local hospital. I heard what you never uttered. Ahh heal ‘us’, protect ‘us’, you and me, me …

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