88 entries

Category: Fiction

Dhatura

Monideepa Sahu • Published on March 13, 2012
The milky dhatura gum would siphon out my soul toward enlightenment. They said I needed it to face sorrows that could lacerate even a princess. I obeyed the sages and rolled a pea-sized ball on my tongue. Its bitter-acrid taste melted into a jasmine-scented mist, revealing a hibiscus opened ...

Koan

Swami Mangalananda, Swarnalatha Rangarajan • Published on February 29, 2012
Katha 2011 Finalist.

Perfect Sunday

Jyotsna Sreenivasan • Published on January 10, 2012
At the end of the day yesterday, as we were eating dinner at the only open restaurant in Elk River (an old logging town turned hunter’s vacation paradise), my seven-year-old son, Ranjan, said, “This was the best Sunday I’ve ever had in my entire life.” We had ...

Two Gurus

Sheela Jaywant • Published on November 10, 2011
Katha 2011 Honorary Mention

Home, Where All The Stories Are Born

Kaushik Barua • Published on October 20, 2011
Excerpt from Windhorse, a novel due to be published by Harper Collins in 2012. Katha Honorable Mention winner.

Mustard Seeds

Jaya Padmanabhan • Published on September 8, 2011
Third place winner of the Katha 2011 fiction contest.

Lanka is Drowning!

Anirvan Chatterjee • Published on August 10, 2011
The second place winner of the Katha 2011 fiction contest uses an innovative take on the Hindu classic Ramayana to highlight the very contemporary problem of climate change.

Tapas and I

Shreyan Mayukh Mitra • Published on July 5, 2011
First Place winner of the Katha 2011 fiction contest.

Green or Brown

Pervin Saket • Published on November 22, 2010
Katha 2010: Honorable Mention

Mango Tree

Jaya Padmanabhan • Published on October 18, 2010
Katha 2010: Honorable Mention
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