Confluence May 2017 issue 0
Confluence May 2017 issue
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Metro Travel; A short fiction by Subhash Chandra
Coming down on the escalator, I saw the whirlpools of the human heads mingling and dis-joining. They looked threatening. I had a sinking feeling I would drown and disappear without a trace. As I touched ground, I saw myriads of people hurtling in different directions, as if the devil was snapping at their heels. I…
Mona Dash’s Konarak Express from ‘Untamed Heart’ to ‘A Certain Way’
At a recent book launch of Mona Dash’s A Certain Way, a poetry collection, it was rare to see the Indian audience animated in the questions and answers session. The book launch was interesting and unique in the sense that it was, in fact, a dual book launch combined with a literary agent, Aanchal Malhotra,…
India’s De/Re-Monetisation and Me
By Shanta Acharya On 8th November 2016 the Government of India took the unprecedented step of banning the use of ₹500 and ₹1000 notes. The announcement was made in the evening and these specified bank notes (SBNs) were deemed ‘illegal’ after midnight. Holders of such notes would be able to convert them into legal tender…
Making of a new constitution for Sri Lanka: Let wiser counsel prevail
By Tassie Seneviratne “Constitution making in Sri Lanka has become a highly contentious issue. The problem lies in the challenge to democracy, arising from the polarization of the two main ethnic groups – the Sinhalese and the Tamils – and the mistrust that has been simmering since Independence culminating in the ‘Vaddukoddai Resolution’ in 1976″.…
Poetry Corner: ‘Saree’ by Vasantha Surya
Saree It came wrapped in desire’s eager rustling a gift I did not choose. Though warp and weft obeyed an ambiguous design, the shade beguiled. The texture satisfied a hunger, not merely of the eye. I shook it loose and shaped it to my use. Line and colour clung to breast and thigh. The…
ABHAY K’s CAPITALS: A POETRY ANTHOLOGY
The Lyrical Capitals Reviewed by Yogesh Patel Poets: Kavita A. Jindal, Yogesh Patel, Mathura, Abhay K, George Szirtes “With a poet in Abhay K., we are not limited to the mundane facts. Instead, some of the poems, as he indicates, are so universal that they can be for any place!” Recently at School of Oriental…
Confluence February 2017 issue
Click here to read Confluence February 2017 issue Every crisis yields an opportunity Two major events that took place during 2016 in Europe and in America are still dominating the headlines. Britain’s decision to leave the European union and the future of UK-Europe relations is causing huge uncertainties re likely economic challenges in the coming years.…
India’s new Consul General to Scotland
By Aline Dobbie It was a great pleasure to meet Mrs Anju Ranjan the new Consul General of India to Scotland this week at her offices in the elegant old building at the Consulate General of India in one of Edinburgh’s most perfect and prestige heritage squares in the West End of Edinburgh – Rutland…
India and the English Aesthetes
by Reginald Massey Gutala Krishnamurti who died recently was a Telugu and English scholar who believed that the Aesthetic Movement which flourished during the 1890s (the fin de siecle period) was among the most productive in English literature. The Aesthetes viewed life as an art. Taking their cue from the likes of the flamboyant Wilde…