Samyukta

Samyukta

Grin and Bear It! Movies lie

At 13 History lies heavily As mama warns you Of boys in school And a mirror tells tales of acne And uncle next door suddenly Puts his hand…(you know where) And you know it’s bad, but you feel good On…

The Wayside Dream: A Woman’s Point

Wishes to robe In new finery And adorn In rough blueness Walk astride To the shady tree Board an omnibus Crawling to town There to walk Some aimless stops Lifting your face To the smoky fumes Find a companion Lounging…

The post Modern body

  Honored Guests on the Dais, My dear Listeners, I do not quite understand why I have been invited to inaugurate a lecture on the postmodern body. Those who know me not, should know that though my name is preceded…

When I said that I Loved you

When I said that. I loved you I answered myself. Tissue departs from fractured bone I know not how to love To set you free When deep longing seeps Through Choline transmission. I stammered my way through another’s love song…

Madness

  She woke up as usual, hearing the alarm but did not feel like getting up. Her whole body smarted as if slashed by a blade. Her head felt as though it were weighed down by a boulder. This uneasiness…

I have Passed through the Gates of Hell

I have passed through the gates of hell and emerged with a prize beyond compare. Tenderness is all. It is not that some people learn the hard way. For everyone, to learn is hard. Now I know about the birds…

Walls

  Irked by a headache Revati shuts the file. It’s three o’clock. “During winter, time doesn’t seem to move beyond three. So many hours before it’s five,” says Bharati, who is typing, next to her. Revati, smiling softly, says: “That’s…

Lanka Lakshmi

The plays of C.N.Sreekantan Nair ushered in a change in the Kerala theatre scene. Lankalakshmi is the second play of a trilogy of plays on Rama, the hero of the Ramayana. The first of the plays is titled Saketham and…