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Fiction, poetry, and criticism that moves through longing, solitude, and the interior life — what desire means under patriarchal constraint.

Desire, Love & Inner Life

Sujata Noronha
June 23, 2026

We are a group of library educators and library facilitators at Bookworm, a library-based organisation in......

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Meghaa Gupta
June 23, 2026

A personal reflection on the evolving idea of what makes a children’s book ‘environmental’ ‘Once upon......

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Nagakarthik MP
June 23, 2026

A reflective piece on The Forgotten Folklore Project and the strange curriculum of growing up in......

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Salini Vineeth
June 23, 2026

As a child growing up in rural Kerala, I didn’t have the skill or inclination to......

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Jatin Lalit
June 22, 2026

Sitting on a bench in the library, I noticed a group of children, no older than......

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Ashwani Kumar
May 28, 2026

A pillar, monk-grey, still standing,while the slumbering flesh of stone collapsesinto the slow erasure of desire.Hannah......

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Ashwani Kumar
May 28, 2026

Every day, the windows fill with lavender light—I bite my lips, then rinse my face, brush......

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Athira Unni
May 28, 2026

po-yum  the whistle blows and the po-yum immediately writes itself in Malayalam slangs of old. I’ve located such blankness......

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Himani Usha Tripathi
April 24, 2026

Applauding Women on Screen, Silencing Them at Home A girl says at the dinner table that......

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Jeena Papaadi
April 15, 2026

“I’m done,” said Bella. “Done with what?” I said without much interest, taking a swig of......

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Farah Ahamed
April 15, 2026

Afghani poet Parwana Fayyaz’s poem Three Dolls is shaped by her lived experiences of war, exile......

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Rituparna Mukherjee
April 13, 2026

RM: Congratulations Amrita on a truly remarkable second book and thank you for talking to us.......

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Rituparna Mukherjee
March 15, 2026

R.K Narayan’s Malgudi Days remains such an abiding classic because it creates a loving and humorous......

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Shikha Lamba
March 15, 2026

SS: Farah, let’s start at the beginning. Why does the cause of period poverty resonate so......

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Aditi Dasgupta
March 15, 2026

At first glance, Daughters of Meerabai situates itself within the devotional genealogy of the Bhakti movement.......

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Priya Sarukkai Chabria
March 15, 2026

If writing is protest, then writing hope is a powerful, reverberating protest amidst the din of......

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