Creations

Stories

God, Do You Have a Cigarette?

By Eagam Khaling I lost my wallet in the Hug Market in Kolkata. Thank God, I was blessed to reach Siliguri with the help of...

Poetry

Now He is Retired!

By Dhruva Thapa Sam,it’s your last day in jobWe can’t extend your visa anymorePlease join tomorrow’s farewell partyA note from his boss compelled to think. Suddenly...

School Zone

A Needle’s Determination

(Nepali folktale) Inside a thick grove in a dense forest on the foot of the Himalayas, there lived a ferocious lion. The mad and rapacious...

Poetry

By Ayodhyanath Choudhary Considering myself unworthyI pray to God from the premisesbut this sweet-sixteen—that fully-grown onethis known and that unknownthis white-complexioned and that blackish onethis...

Stories

My First Shoes

By Jivan Jivanta When I grew old enough to be conscious of myself and the world around me, my life was still living on barefoot. I...

Poetry

The Foundation

By Parijat My Love! Today is a day-off!Won’t you turn your profound eyes to meFollowing whose manifestationsI wish to land on the shore of life. My...

Poetry

Cult

By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa The pursuit of taboosis likened to the pursuit of blessings.Humans, from cradle to coffin,are snared in cults. The frail woman’s fast-vowing for...

Stories

Sayonara

By Biranchi Poudyal The village stretched before me like an animated portrayal of rural houses featured in cartoons, knitted together by the stitching of green bush...

Poetry

The Letterbox

By Kamala Tamang The red-faced letterboxStands desertedBy the edge of a busy road I often pass by that road The letterbox used to standWith a smiling postureIn...

Poetry

Are We Free?

By Manahari Kshitiz “The human world is free”Declared the emperor declared many times—“You are free; we are free, all free.”Are we free?Who can answer the...

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