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Short stories, South Asia

‘The Family Inside Her Head’ by Megha Rao

by New Asian Writing • 29/06/2015 • 3 Comments
Megha Rao

Short Story ID- 6/2015 A beauty sleeps in the open brown box Its legs outstretched like sunbathing under The angry summer sun. It sings to me, its eyes closed “I am the corpse of a woman who loved.” The woman…

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Short stories, South Asia

‘I gave up my ghost’ by Ranjani Neriya

by New Asian Writing • 29/06/2015 • 0 Comments
Ranjani Neriya

Short Story ID- 5/2015 1 My name is Shilpa. I believe in ghosts because I am one. I believe in the afterlife because I have been there. I believe in the occult because I have seen it happen.   Long…

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NAW Poetry

‘Un Answered’ by N S Abhayakumar

by New Asian Writing • 02/06/2015 • 0 Comments

Why is it glowing, like candles over the grave of dreams , the radiance of affection. Why is it flowing on; like a veil over the face of fate , the river of voids. Why is it lingering on even…

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‘Soporific’ by Rony Nair

by New Asian Writing • 24/05/2015 • 0 Comments
Rony Nair

In your town again, the landmarks look newer; Shinier, this used to be my town too.   it no longer is.   school holidays bring kids in droves into nests and town centres with play areas that compensate in the…

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Short stories, South Asia

‘Terror, Peril and Fate of Children’ by Ketaki Datta

by New Asian Writing • 22/05/2015 • 0 Comments
Dr. Ketaki Datta

Short Story ID- 3/2015 Seikh Suleiman was made to learn the knowhow of making a bomb.A bomb, which would kill thousands of people. At one go. He knew next to nothing about it before. His father, a daily wage-earner of…

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Short stories, South Asia

‘The Plummet’ by Namrata

by New Asian Writing • 14/05/2015 • 3 Comments
Namrata

Short Story ID- 2/2015 The shrill screams from the room next door woke Ruma from her sleep. Since the time she had come here sleep had always evaded her, right now she held on tightly to whatever little of sleep…

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NAW Poetry

‘The Worship room’ by Afshan Shafi

by New Asian Writing • 08/05/2015 • 0 Comments
Afshan Shafi

I saw what green walls, they had cocooned you in, with the refrain of your rosaries, brighter and brighter each evening, hemic knots cored and plucked into half moons, gold -sheaved narcissi starred with cochineal, the lilt of your white…

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‘The two petals of selfhood’ by Afshan Shafi

by New Asian Writing • 07/05/2015 • 0 Comments
Afshan Shafi

  They justified this war. they justified the fathomless amongst paper tulips and stars made of glue, ink and real hugs. Beyond this the world utters one silver sentence an hour. Beyond the woodcuts of us, the catty and lurid…

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‘A Mystical Poem’ by Sonnet Mondal from the upcoming ‘Karmic Chanting’ series

by New Asian Writing • 07/05/2015 • 0 Comments
Sonnet Mondal

A Mystical Poem by Sonnet Mondal from the upcoming ‘Karmic Chanting’ series Promises and Commitments are the most brittle words in the human lexicon of emotions. It is quite expected to get affected by them. Rising and falling through these…

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‘The Real Lonely kind’ by Afshan Shafi

by New Asian Writing • 07/05/2015 • 0 Comments
Afshan Shafi

  ‘Coquetry is a triumph of the spirit over the senses’ Coco Chanel   Somethings are too unlovely to discover. the commonest toad has its emerald articulations to suffer. it has perhaps a comely defense, many pale islands of symmetry…

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‘Ativan. Atraxia. A July evening.’ by Afshan Shafi

by New Asian Writing • 07/05/2015 • 0 Comments
Afshan Shafi

1.’His mind is a violet’ To a six year old, It was easier to contribute his Primitive scrawled vision To a defect easily imprisoned By rainbow crayola Where my brain was meekly lush And perhaps more conflagrated Like a glade-scaly…

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