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Usawa #8
Kindness
EDITORIALS
Smita Sahay Editor-in-Chief
K. Srilata Translations Editor
Vinita Agrawal Poetry Editor
IN FOCUS
Three Poems by Vinita Agrawal
Usawa Features: Writers Respond to the Latest Happenings
The Poetics of Violence By Sonali Bhagchandani
Temsula Ao (1945-2002): A Tribute By Professor G.J.V. Prasad
Annie Ernaux, the Peacemaker By Arun Paria
Editors Recommendation
Books That Our Editors Liked
EXCERPTS
Speaking in Tongues By Kiran Bhat
Vital Signs By Amlanjyoti Goswami
Crumbs of Moment by Ustat Kaur Sethi
CogVerse by Vivekanand Selvaraj
My City is a Murder of Crows by Nikita Parik
INTERVIEW
A Conversation between Avinuo Kire and Namrata Pathak
War and Women: Breaking the Code of Silence. A Conversation between Dr. Garima Srivastava and Dr. Neekee Chaturvedi
Reclaiming Lost Voices: Rashmi Rawat talks to Kinshuk Gupta
POETRY
Father Helpless and Other Poems By Ankush Banerjee
Merci and Other Poems By Aditi Bhattacharjee
Kindness By Sampurna Chattarji
Prelude and Other Poems By Samreen Chhabra
Silent Ways By Subhana Sawhny Gidwani
The Thumbai Flowers and Other Poems By Uma Gowrishankar
Another Karna and Other Poems By Amlanjyoti Goswami
Mercy and Other Poems By Danish Husain
Ishta-devata and Other Poems By Indu Parvathi
Virus by Adil Jussawalla
Am I Worth Your Compassion? By Kris Kaila
Of that Old Pain By Nuzhat Khan
Homing and Other Poems By Sukrita Paul Kumar
Accidental Worship By Madhu Kailas
Kindness and Other Poems By Nithya Mariam John
To Our Unborn and Other Poems by Bhaskar Pitla
Listening In and Other Poems By Geetha Ravichandran
Things I am Learning from the Sea By Basudhara Roy
Birthday Poem By Srila Roy
A Hymn For Enemy and Other Poems By Smitha Sehgal
Interns Diary by Tejinder Sethi
Spring Song (haibun) By Vidya Shankar
Kindness is all By Ranu Uniyal
FICTION
Eavesdropping By Ashmeen Bains
Sparrow By Dhruba Hazarika
You Are Never Alone By Rebecca Mathai
Budhnu By Mandira Pattnaik
Cup-Bashi By Aishwarya Prabhala
Little Star By Nishi Pulugurtha
Confirmed Ticket By Gita Viswanath
A Quest for Identity By Vidhan R. Verma
Excerpts from Impeachment by Anjali Deshpande
NON FICTION
Prabhat, as he was Called by Roxy Arora
Kindness in the Time of Partition by Saaz Aggarwal
I Never got the Chance to Play for India by Riya Behl
The Three Witches’ Songs by Nabina Das
Mahesh by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Translated from the Bangla by Somrita Urni Ganguly
The Currency of Songs by Bhaswati Ghosh
From Marginalized to Mainstream: Four Indian English Women Poets by Jagari Mukherjee
Star Dancing on the Pavement by Warren Jeremy Rourke
Manto’s Posthumous Circumcision by Ajmal Kamal
Acts of Kindness Etched in Contemporary Indian Fiction by Diya Sengupta
On Kindness by Mugdha Sinha
A Smile Like no Other by Dr. Sarabjeet Dhody Natesan
Celebrating Cancer By Vibha Rani
Flats & Flatmates by Arushi Vats
TRANSLATIONS
“A Way of Life”, a short story by Poomani, translated
from the Tamil by Padma Narayanan
The Dreams of a Mappila Girl, a memoir by BM Zuhara, translated from the
Malayalam by Fehmida Zakeer.
“Old Woman Komboothi”, a short story by Ra
Azhagarasami, translated from the Tamil by Padma
Narayanan
Ahiran, a novel by Indira Goswami, translated from the Assamese by Dibyajyoti
Sarma.
Lakshmi, a Traveler, a memoir translated from the Tamil by Kalpana
Karunakaran.
"Lambs and Tigers", a short story by S Ramakrishnan, translated from the Tamil By G Bharath Kumar
“My Position Regarding Death is Absolutely Clear”, a short story by
Shahaduz Zaman, translated from the Bangla by V Ramaswamy.
Two poems by Leena Malhotra, translated from the Hindi by Antara Rao
Yadavalli.
“The Last Horse Cart”, a short story by S Ramakrishnan, translated from the Tamil
by R Sathish.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Power of ‘History from Below’, Rendered Gracefully in Aanchal Malhotra’s Remnants of a Separation: Review By Ankush Banerjee
A Mirror to Society in Savitha Pathak’s Hysteria: Review By Pratibha Bhagat
Re-Writing Invisible Registers of Lost Humanity Alka Saraogi’s Kulbhushan Ka Naam Darj Kijiye: Review By Anupama Choubey
Empathy: Prime Mover of Suman Keshri's Nimitt Nahin: Review By Mridula Garg
Leading to the Big Questions in Avinuo Kire’s Where the Cobbled Path Leads: Review By Namrata Pathak
Fantasy, Magic and more in Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono: Review By Aditi Yadav