POEMS ---- Title: When the Flood Stops Poet: Chaitali Sengupta Poet Intro: Chaitali Sengupta is a writer and a poet by passion, a financial analyst and a language teacher by profession. She’s a translator and volunteer journalist, based in the Netherlands. “Cross Stitched words”, her debut collection of prose-poems, has been recently published by SETU publications, USA. Her two translated works (from Bengali to English) are “Quiet whispers of our heart” & “A thousand words of heart”. She has con…

One single word that embraces multiple attributes and emotions, one single word that explicitly points at hidden inferiority, one single word that stands out as a pale ray of alacrity against all atrocities – that word, MASK, has thus been explored and examined throughout this compilation. Quite obviously, we call it, THE MASK. These four alphabets may look similar in all the submissions, the meanings penned down are but diverse and hold equal significance. The titular theme of the project was s…

Now that I ponder over my very memorable memories of the past, sitting under this secluded shady oak, away from my motherland, I feel like I clearly have two incidents to remember. Two incidents to remember, specific ones. I really do not understand why I recall them in the first place, but I will document them here to be remembered for posterity. They might be reading this someday; they might be able to deduce and infer something. Who knows! I That night there was deafening thunder and blinding…