Rumi: Gems from the Master

Rumi: Gems from the Master ‘Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.’  ‘If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?’  ‘The wound is the place where the...

Sit still and be still

Anushka Chatterjee Sit still and be still. Stop and stay. Breathe. Meditate. Revel in the knowledge that we are all seekers with infinite questions but no truth to discover. Revel in the knowledge that nothing is everything and everything is weightless. We are all...

First Touch –

Anushka Chatterjee Pale wings fluttered in the fading light, edges dipped in shimmer. Shadows stretched and awoke, yawning away the sleep. Light faded but also brightened. Spots of bright red and orange, streaks of burning heat atop delicate stems of wax. The wings...

Ashwati –

Anushka Chatterjee A gust of wind following a butterfly, tracing patterns into the fabric of sunlight, tripping through leaves rustling with dead secrets and whispers of brooks fed with liquid laughter. Laughter that echoes through rooms of a home filled with gold...

These Our Bodies Posessed by Light

 – A Book Review First published in The Book Review – www.thebookreviewindia.org Author: Dharini Bhaskar Publisher: Hachette India Pages: 336, Hardcover, Price: Rs. 599 “…Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that meanswe’re...

Bombay Balchao – A Book Review

Author: Jane Borges Publisher: Tranquebar Pages: 224, Hardcover, Price: Rs. 499 First published in The Book Review – www.thebookreviewindia.org ‘Each time you prepare the balchao masala, think of the person you want to feed it to. If it’s someone you dislike,...