Susmita Bhattacharya

This book on short stories explores the struggle that is an inherent part of man's life all over the world, in various points of time in history. They explore the times before the aggression of the internet that changed the concept of life, perchance forever. The stories seek to identify the reason for the obstacles in his path of life and how he sought his denouement. Sometimes, he has tried to rewrite history by challenging his fate, and at other times, he has been merely a marionette in the hands of destiny. Perhaps he has succeeded because he was always one step ahead in his struggle for existence. The stories try to express this challenge and how man strives to rise to the realm beyond.About the Author: Susmita Bhattacharya is an academician and an artist. As an educationist, she is dedicated to the shaping of young minds through innovative means of teaching. Her thoughts on existential crises and how man has overcome it through the ages has been explored and expressed with characteristic verve and consummate imagination in this book on short stories.

Writer Phillip Lopate described the essay as ‘an open-ended adventure, an invitation to doubt and self-surprise’. The essays in this special issue use the form as a platform to allow a multitude of voices to ring clear, inviting us to explore topics as varied as nature, trauma, last lines of poetry, and Esperanto.Featuring writing by Tom Bailey, Susmita Bhattacharya, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Constance Kresge, Christopher Linforth, Zachary D. Shell, Rob McClure Smith, Charlie J. Stephens, S.Y. Tam, Jack Young, and Anna Vaught

'The law seems to be very interested in widows and lesbians. Both are hanging on to the edges of society, begging to be recognised.' It's the end of a millennium. India has made tremendous progress in science and technology, but in these times of economic boom can a friendship between two women give them the power to defy society? Reprint. First Published in 2015.