‘How I Became a Tree’ by Sumana Roy – An Excerpt
TREE TIME At first it was the underwear. I wanted to become a tree because trees did not wear bras. Then it had to do with the spectre of violence….
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TREE TIME At first it was the underwear. I wanted to become a tree because trees did not wear bras. Then it had to do with the spectre of violence….
Read MoreDuring bewildering times such as the present, the divide between fiction and reality is increasingly blurry and we turn to stories to make sense of our predicament. With our…
Read MoreBut oft some shining April morn Is darkened in an hour, And blackest griefs o’er joyous home, Alas! unseen may lower. —Rev. J. H. Gurney ‘Rebati! Rebi! You fire that…
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Read MoreDuring bewildering times such as the present, the divide between fiction and reality is increasingly blurry and we turn to stories to make sense of our predicament. With our brand-new…
Read MoreMy five-year-old daughter talked all the time. It had taken her a year after her birth to master the language, and since then she has not wasted a second of…
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