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Epilogue to Her Fancies
In her childhood Beth often listened to her granny’s wondrous tales, as she rested on a cot under the starlit skies… “…and the fox turns into a huge gourd, it slopes down swiftly through the dense jungles to reach me…” Nine times out of ten she fell asleep before the story ended; her night a…
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Even They Climbed the Hill
Saurav Kumar Chaliha (Translated from the original in Assamese, ‘Xihoteu Pahar Bogale’, by Rituparna Borah) “What’s that light, over there?” “That’s the light from torch flames. That’s a Khasi village; Smit or something akin to that name. Or perhaps it’s Laitkor or else Lum Siem.” “You don’t know for sure?” “It has been a long…
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The Spiral Stairway to Peace
One of my pen-friends once introduced me to the ‘peak experience’ concept of Maslow. According to Maslow’s theory, every individual has the potential to reach self-actualization, that is, utilizing one’s potential to the optimal level, and experience a blissful feeling unparalleled to all known emotions. Those were days when I was developing a keen interest…
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Crossings and Convergence
In that world, where we were first introduced I laid my eyes on a poem The beginnings of a blue, tender. We prepared to play you in me, and I learnt Poetry is more than stroking this tapestry- Life? In this world, where beauty is in dawns never meeting Twilights And the pond the sky,…
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अहम् के बहाने?
कोई कला का कैदी तोह कोई कृत्य का बिच में उलझेलूल हम क्षणिक सुख की झलक क्या मिल गयी तलब पे उतर आये हम सोचा था कि अपने बारे में कभी न बोलेंगे, पर क्या करें अल्फाज़ मुलाज़िम जो ठहरे सुर्ख आँसुओं के दबी हुयी दुखों की बुनियाद पे जिंदगी खड़ी तोह नहीं की जाती…
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