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NAW Poetry

‘Don’t wear a dupatta today’ by Kanika Sharma

by New Asian Writing • 07/06/2013 • 0 Comments

Don’t wear a dupatta today Don’t today Wear a dupatta Walk in broad day light stark naked sunlight   They will undress you Undress you with their eyes They will Misbehave Behave yourself   Clock moves around the same numbers…

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‘LIGHTER OF THE PYRE’ by SATISH PENDHARKAR

by New Asian Writing • 06/06/2013 • 0 Comments
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The corpses of those Who die from drowning Stink like hell. The corpses Of cancer-patients Ooze hazardous wastes.   Burning dead bodies Comes easily enough To the professional cremator For whom sorting out Fragments of bones from ashes Is easier…

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‘Once in a by-lane’ by Meha Pande

by New Asian Writing • 05/06/2013 • 3 Comments

Short story selected for the 2013 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology Ramla and Onir were in the underground book market of Chandani Bazaar. Chandani Bazaar was called so because it bore an obvious resemblance to Dilli’s Chandani Chowk. But this…

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‘Romance on Indian Railway’ by Juanita Kakoty

by New Asian Writing • 25/05/2013 • 0 Comments

What is it about a train journey in India I fail to understand, but every time I have been on a train, I’ve made friends. And the nature of the friendship has been such that it lasted for only as…

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‘Maximum’ by Puspita Das Barbara

by New Asian Writing • 29/04/2013 • 0 Comments

Short story selected for the 2013 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology He couldn’t see when he was born. But then that’s natural for pups. Their eyes open only about two weeks after their birth. And he was the tiniest.…

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‘Kubo-bird’ by Rudra Kinshuk

by New Asian Writing • 27/04/2013 • 0 Comments

It is a morning of the latter half of Ashwin. Nikhilesh makes himself seated near the front-door of his house. No shirt on his body. But it has been covered with one end of his dhoti. In the morning a…

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‘The Pomelo Tree’ by Rudra Kinshuk

by New Asian Writing • 25/04/2013 • 0 Comments

Short story selected for the 2013 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology They bore his grandpa away from his cottage with the straw thatch, covered with lush green pumpkin- creepers and a big chalta-tree hovering over it. It being a…

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‘Absentminded Majoni’ by Juanita Kakoty

by New Asian Writing • 24/04/2013

People thought she was not like this as a young girl. It afflicted her only after she became a ‘professor’. But I, who have almost been her shadow in our years of growing up together, always knew that absentmindedness was…

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‘Silver lining’ by Shobhana Kumar

by New Asian Writing • 21/04/2013 • 0 Comments

Short story selected for the 2013 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology The party was almost drawing to a close. Empty champagne glasses carelessly arranged themselves along with discarded plates, crumpled paper napkins and used cutlery on the pale cream…

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‘Betrothed’ by Juanita Kakoty

by New Asian Writing • 19/04/2013 • 1 Comment

Short story selected for the 2013 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology The flowery chiffon dress left a soft warm sensation every time it touched him. He pulled her close to him, his strong hands around her soft stomach, cheek…

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Haiku poems by Yoshira Marbel

by New Asian Writing • 13/04/2013 • 1 Comment

Haiku1 Expiry date reached Maker awaits an arrival Dying for a smoke   Haiku 2 Looking at the skies Crescent moon glistens Eating cheese cake   Haiku 3 Friends dancing in the rain Leaving an awesome party Such a wet…

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