Short fiction: Riddled with debt, a farmer urges the PM to change the formula for compound interest

[ad_1] Date: 9 August, 20-whatever At your service, Respected Prime Minister Sir, Government of India, The Prime Minister’s Office, North Block, New Delhi – 110001. Your Excellency, I, Rajesh Kushwaha, of India, am not a city dweller, but a villager....

Fiction: The body of a young woman, her insides split open, is found inside a farmhouse near Delhi

[ad_1] “What is the story of that murder?”“What story? She was a whore, that bitch. That very day she was identified. Everybody in the village knew her. Used to work in some beauty parlour. In this very market. You know...

‘Ma is Scared’: Anjali Kajal’s short stories step into the lives of ordinary women in northern India

[ad_1] In her works, the Hindi writer Anjali Kajal has consistently explored how women both resist as well as reaffirm patriarchy and casteism. Originally from Ludhiana, she is now based in Delhi. Ma is Scared is her first book to...

Translated short fiction: A woman plunges into panic and depression after reading the newspaper

[ad_1] “At least your ma can read the newspaper!” We were at school when my friend said this to me one day, after visiting our house and seeing my mother going through the paper. It was true that most of...