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CANNABIS

The ants ate up the cannabis
A leaf or two was spared for you to chew
Chew on it they had said
Relieves depression they had promised
The ants were gregarious it seemed
The tea had spilled a little bit on her kurta
The chewing continuing
Slowly and patient
Seemed like ages but continued

Eyes closed

The brain imagined itself to be free
Climbing up the highest turrets
Scaling the large oceans
Falling from the skies or was it floating?

Eyes open

The promise seems hollow
The stain on the kurta irks her
The ants shuffle past her
Cannabis …

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Issue 64 (Nov-Dec 2015)

focus Écriture Feminine
  • Editorial
    • Semeen Ali: Editorial
  • Articles
    • Animesh Bag: A Critique of Subaltern Studies
    • Madhulika Dash: Re-reading Kamala Das’s My Story
    • Poushali Chakraborty: L’ecriture Feminine in Chicana Food Narratives
    • Puja Sen: Suddenly Sontag
    • Ridhima Tewari: Kristeva’s Imaginary Fa(Mo)ther
    • Rini Barman: Indira Goswami’s Chinamastar Manuhtu
    • Sakshi Wason: Paul Aster’s New York Trilogy
    • Santanu Saha: L’ecriture Feminine in poems of Kamala Das
    • Shraddha: Feminine perspectives in Buchi Emecheta’s novels
    • Sreyashi Ray: Bama’s Sangati
    • Subhro Saha: Écriture Feminine
  • Fiction
    • Amreeta Das: ‘It Seems So Long Ago Nancy…’
    • Amrita Singh: ‘Chulha’
    • Diptokirti Samajdar: ‘Penance’
    • Kathryn Hummel: 'The Arc of Princess Eva'
    • Mamta Joshi: ‘Maniacal Silences’
    • Nighat Gandhi: ‘Lingerie’
    • Nishtha Gautam: ‘Black Coffee’
    • Rabeya: ‘Unfeminine Ways’
    • Suroopa Mukherjee: Listening to Women’s Stories …
  • Poetry
    • Abul Kalam Azad
    • Aditi Angiras
    • Akanksha Swarup
    • Akhil Katyal
    • Amanda Basaiwmoit
    • Amitabh Mitra
    • Ankita Anand
    • Apoorva Shekher
    • John Thieme
    • Kathryn Hummel
    • Maaz Bin Bilal
    • Nabina Das
    • Pallavi Narayan
    • Rachana Pandey
    • Radhika Menon
    • Rahul Sen
    • Rajorshi Das
    • Rohith M
    • Sahana Mukherjee
    • Saleem Peeradina
    • Semeen Ali
    • Sharad Chandra
    • Sonali Pattnaik
    • Srishti Dutta Chowdhury
    • Sultana Raza