Women’s memoirs have interested me such as Ayaan Hirschi Ali’s unforgettable...

I was in excess of this order, more than bones I was arteries...

silent waters —holding the achebeneath blood moon —fury of high tidesin his eyes torn apartpiece by......

Tanka shiuli flower trembles in the night breeze and perishes at dawn...

I pulled the desert over my eyes and sank deep into the sand blood...

Continuities Another sharp edge Around the mountain A blind turn...

It had seemed like any other Saturday when she had woken up. She had thrown open......

shiuli flowertrembles in the night breezeand perishes at dawn …what shall I give intobut the burden......

(‘The Inauguration’ by Suneetha Balakrishnan was the winning entry of the 2012 Desi Writer’s Lounge Short......

Not a tear fellFrom the old woman’s eyeAs she witnessed herDwelling set ablaze No tearEven whileGazing......