(Inspired by a painting by Sufia Khatoon, created for the 6th Woman Scream International Poetry and Arts Festival 2016, commemorating on the occasion of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2016). Hail you, woman, who do you love so, the bleeding yarns of your footwork nudging his needs? Is it a ramp, or a catwalk in…

  It hadn’t been long that I knew him. A trimester was all it lasted. From the moment I checked his profile on Facebook to the time we made love and to the moment I knew it was over took roughly less than a quarter of a year and almost a bottle of whiskey, otherwise….

It may be a bad-memory place or a livid-eyed face It may be a withering frown It may be a case of road rage or a painful piece on a page that brings back being put down It may be a booming loud voice or the sudden slamming of a door It may be a…

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Roshni was preparing to crack the herculean Joint Entrance Exams to get an entry into either Engineering or medical colleges. She was asked to take tuitions from Professor Bimalendu C, who would help her with Maths and Physics in which she was weak. Roshni was thirteen and Professor BC was 45 forty five. It was…

  Speak Up Against Emotional Abuse I have confronted several cases where women have been the subject of emotional abuse. Women go into abusive relationship thinking it’s okay – well, hear this – it’s not. Just because a person doesn’t hit you physically it doesn’t mean they aren’t abusive. Abuse is control, blatant disrespect of…

People Power – Dynamics of group   mentality Most of us are familiar with the concept of “family friends”: different families gather together to enjoy each other’s company and engage in group activities. However in my experience, family friends are complicated and not a source of enjoyment at most times. The societal divide between men…

“Grandma Lynn?” My adult stepson’s tone tells me he’s repeating what his kids have been saying. They want my attention. I have not heard their words. It’s the first night of the Brown Family Campout at the Russian River. I am sitting at a picnic table in front of my computer, working while I wait…

    The Liberation of Sita by Swapna Narayanan   For some of us women, who have spent our childhood reading or hearing mythological stories and folk tales, the rhetoric of Sita being epitomized as an ideal daughter, an ideal wife and an ideal mother, thus an ideal woman has always irked. The frequent thought…