by Chandrika R Krishnan | Aug 7, 2023 | Poetry
You are just a girl. You are told. You can’t play as much as he can You can’t eat as much as he can You can’t travel as much as he can Girl, do you know your strength Changing the cant’s to can? You are just a girl. You are told Protect your...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Jun 10, 2023 | Fiction
After catching his wife and her paramour in flagrante delicto, all Shantakumar did was throw the man’s clothes over the tenth-floor balcony. He watched with bemusement as the clothes floated down as if in slow motion and landed long after their owner made a splat on...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | May 13, 2023 | My Reviews, The world of printed words, The World of Printed Words
There is a general consensus that if a character or characters make you want to hug them or shake them till their teeth rattles or anything in-between, then the book is well-written or the movie well-made. Salini Vineeth’s Lost Edges makes you relate to the...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | May 8, 2023 | Fiction
Fairy tales often began with, “Once Upon a Time” But then, I like scores of others often oscillated between belief and disbelief as I grew out of my childhood. Over the years, this belief kept taking a beating. But when 2020 came around with its pandemic,...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 16, 2023 | My Reviews, The world of printed words
A collection of poems that make one’s heart sing and think Sonal’s debut Poetry collection ranges from sheer ecstasy to poignant bliss. There are two sections to the book – Nature’s Rhapsody and Life’s Foibles If the poem ‘Languid...