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The Dawning femasiamagazine.com/the-dawn…

The Dawning - FemAsia Magazine

  The world shifts on its axis when it dawns on you that your parents are not the font of knowledge and wisdom the epitome of perfection not gods, but imperfect, fallible human beings with dreams and...

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The Tender Forgiveness Of Contrasts For Audre Lord femasiamagazine.com/the-tend…
The Tender Forgiveness Of Contrasts For Audre Lord - FemAsia Magazine

The Tender Forgiveness Of Contrasts For Audre Lord - FemAsia Magazine

  The moon floats like a differentiation over our garden wall. Eleven alley cats croon. Stocking cap or a hat without a brim, well tethered eleven.   Philanthropic Propensities For Injustice The man...

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Putting Up a fight Against Child Marriage femasiamagazine.com/putting-…
Putting Up a fight Against Child Marriage - FemAsia Magazine

Putting Up a fight Against Child Marriage - FemAsia Magazine

  In January, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that a “statewide drive will be launched against child marriage, booking men marrying girls below 14 years of age under Protection of...

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My Last Link femasiamagazine.com/my-last-…
My Last Link - FemAsia Magazine

My Last Link - FemAsia Magazine

    I ran hysterically and had no idea what was happening! The village was haunted and dark; only the stars gave me courage. Ghostly silence of humanity, and only a bat flapped its wings, and an owl...

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Kite Running Days femasiamagazine.com/kite-run…

Kite Running Days - FemAsia Magazine

  Kite running days An ambery summer Lay on harvested crops. Our salad days flapped like Dragonflies. We piled up pebbles under Shade of the giant Albizia. Tween us in loosen plaits And frocks with...

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Love not Lost femasiamagazine.com/love-not…
Love not Lost - FemAsia Magazine

Love not Lost - FemAsia Magazine

      I sit and stare off into the void. Wrapped in inky blackness, the sky’s many twinkling stars keep a wary eye on me, I can feel it. My thoughts play a song; notes of an old song, from a time...

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My Poems Speak of a Scene or a Thing femasiamagazine.com/my-poems…
My Poems Speak of a Scene or a Thing - FemAsia Magazine

My Poems Speak of a Scene or a Thing - FemAsia Magazine

Nishi Pulugurtha In Conversation with Jhilam Chattaraj     ‘the brown leaf between barbed wires that draw borders stuck held up and hanging’ — Nishi Pulugurtha Raindrops on the Periwinkle (Writers...

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And What Is Your Peace..? femasiamagazine.com/and-what…
And What Is Your Peace..? - FemAsia Magazine

And What Is Your Peace..? - FemAsia Magazine

    Let me tell you what peace is. Peace is, watching your friend make a house into a home. It is watching her snuggle next to her child her arms wrapped around his little body, protecting him from...

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Mt. Luna femasiamagazine.com/mt-luna/…

Mt. Luna - FemAsia Magazine

  Sister, look at the moon fret with you above Mt. Luna. He knows the fiefdom of dissenting clans is upon you, somewhere in a countryside where poetry never had a chance. The fire in the mountains is...

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Tactile  femasiamagazine.com/tactile/
Tactile - FemAsia Magazine

Tactile  - FemAsia Magazine

  “The longing to touch…I feel gratitude when I touch someone  — as well as affection etc. The person has allowed me proof  that I have a body — and that there are bodies in the world.  — Susan...

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After Love femasiamagazine.com/after-lo…
After Love - FemAsia Magazine

After Love - FemAsia Magazine

    Now that you have lost another version of you, walk out through the new moon in the spruces and lie down in the deep of the clearing. Listen: they are still here, the wild things, migrations...

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Melanzane  femasiamagazine.com/melanzan…
Melanzane - FemAsia Magazine

Melanzane  - FemAsia Magazine

  After Peter Balakian’s “Eggplant” So much wrapped                                                                                                       in the leaves of stuffed cabbage, the...

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I Sit in Front of the Television femasiamagazine.com/i-sit-in…
I Sit in Front of the Television - FemAsia Magazine

I Sit in Front of the Television - FemAsia Magazine

    I sit in front of the television, Images staring at me Like a mongoose trying to snatch back its fair share Like leaves teasing from a branch Like me looking at you and thinking Thinking if your...

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When your Toddler Becomes your Mentor -Reflections femasiamagazine.com/when-you…

When your Toddler Becomes your Mentor -Reflections - FemAsia Magazine

It was the month of June, a rainy June, as it is every year in Kerala. I was pregnant and was supposed to deliver my baby on May 26th. I was excited, scared, anxious and thrilled – not able to...

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A Good Friday Beach Visit femasiamagazine.com/a-good-f…
A Good Friday Beach Visit - FemAsia Magazine

A Good Friday Beach Visit - FemAsia Magazine

  A perfect seaside filter coffee leaves a caramel bitterness on the tongue Even in company, the crashing waves of the sea only remind of the disconsolate need for love. A passing fortune teller...

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The Mask femasiamagazine.com/the-mask…
The Mask - FemAsia Magazine

The Mask - FemAsia Magazine

    A soft whiff of air knocking at my window, table of good thoughts turned over. An effort to sew the wound of past, the mask fell off, eyes betraying heartache. Gloom blocking the view of silence,...

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A Solo Trip to The Hills femasiamagazine.com/a-solo-t…

A Solo Trip to The Hills - FemAsia Magazine

    The first time I decided to go on a solo trip (to Gokarna) a few years back, I remember feeling excited, nervous and happy. The same feelings in varying intensities enveloped me this time also,...

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On the Edge of the Moon: Seeing Ourselves in a Photograph femasiamagazine.com/on-the-e…
On the Edge of the Moon: Seeing Ourselves in a Photograph - FemAsia Magazine

On the Edge of the Moon: Seeing Ourselves in a Photograph - FemAsia Magazine

  In March 2022, my friend Chandita Mukherjee sent me this photograph taken 45 years ago. Two bright-eyed young women in their twenties, sitting on the edge of a crescent moon, gaze upon the viewer,...

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Spring Musings femasiamagazine.com/spring-m…

Spring Musings - FemAsia Magazine

Bird love  As I write these pieces, Spring is not quite fully in the air, but close enough. It arrives later in my city, here in Canada. The freezing nights and warm days are turning the sidewalks...

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Gulmohur femasiamagazine.com/gulmohur…
Gulmohur - FemAsia Magazine

Gulmohur - FemAsia Magazine

    On the way back from the hospital I ask in the rickshaw — Why this life-long marination in nature and language? Why go desperately Sensing the too-named Naming the too-sensed? Where do I go...

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