Tag:Indian English readers

Poetry

Reading Between the lines – S.Bhuvaneshwari, Tamilnadu

A little child to her Mother said one day, Let’s have something interesting to play. A question a day I’d ask, To reply within thirty seconds is...

IR - March 12, 2014

Poetry

The Great Indian Rope Trick – Sudhanshu Bhandari, Uttarakhand

The reticent Sardar finally speaks from the pulpit of an absolute monarch’s magnificence in Stone; Proclaims of having fulfilled “India’s tryst with Destiny”; The Wheel of...

IR - March 12, 2014

Fiction

Oh! Bearded man – J.T. Jayasingh

I know you, you bearded I have been groaning with extreme pain since 2am. Perhaps it was not the mistake of the lorry driver. All...

IR - January 27, 2014

Articles

Exploring Models of Femininity in Women’s Writings – By Uplabdhi Sangwan, New Delhi

Bama’s Karukku (1992), Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors (1980) and Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich Like Us (1985) depict stories set in three widely...

IR - January 18, 2014

Poetry

The sand and pebbles – Shakambari

I live here on the vast, Taking in the open air, By little hands Sought by giant arms Of waves, the retreating bands. Taking in all the impressions, That steady...

IR - January 15, 2014

Poetry

Remembering the end – Madhuchhanda Karmakar, West Bengal

Forgetting to remember the end fragmentary sentences clings on its amorphous presence. Words drowns in the swirls of the ink swallowing letters as it sinks Facades blot. I return back from all the...

IR - June 6, 2013

Poetry

Conquistadors – Sudhanshu Bhandari, Uttarakhand

A bunch of rowdies from Isabella’s plague infested cities; Cross the Terra Incognito to plague the inhabitants of the New World; Mankind before had never seen...

IR - January 15, 2013

Fiction