Madhulika Khaitan — Excerpt: Indisputably, there is the will of God. But then, there is also the will of a woman.
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Torches in Shadows
Chitra Gopalakrishnan — Excerpt: The men tell me they are heading to a pokkar. “We want our pond back and we will take it, one way or another,” they say.
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Shinkansen Diaries: Discovering Japan by Rail (Part 1 – Tokyo)
Michael Smith — Excerpt: In October 2009, myself and a colleague at the British school where I worked accompanied a small group of 15/16 year old students to Japan.
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The Guardian of the Temple
Apoorva Shekher — Excerpt: Alok rushed outside and found a few rowdy-looking youngsters throwing stones at a building in the precincts of the Sharda Temple.
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Present Perfect and Other Demonic Possessions
Sabyasachi Roy — Excerpt: This piece is by a Bengali who has been haunted, or rather, it is a haunting in eleven tenses. But, it always starts with the Present Perfect.